| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: pursuits entailed a life of furtiveness and dread of every shadow.
Partly it was the police he feared; but sometimes his nervousness
was deeper and more nebulous, touching on certain indescribable
things into which he had injected a morbid life, and from which
he had not seen that life depart. He usually finished his experiments
with a revolver, but a few times he had not been quick enough.
There was that first specimen on whose rifled grave marks of clawing
were later seen. There was also that Arkham professor’s body which
had done cannibal things before it had been captured and thrust
unidentified into a madhouse cell at Sefton, where it beat the
walls for sixteen years. Most of the other possibly surviving
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: "And you did not vote for us in the last elections?" said the
statesman, looking hard at Gazonal.
"No; but what you have just said in my hearing has bribed me; on the
word of a commandant of the National Guard I'll have your candidate
elected--"
"Very good; will you guarantee your cousin?" asked the young man,
turning to Leon.
"We are forming him," said Bixiou, in a tone irresistibly comic.
"Well, I'll see about it," said the young man, leaving his friends and
rushing precipitately back to the Chamber.
"Who is that?" asked Gazonal.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Yates Pride by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: don't know but I am going to follow your example."
"My example?"
"Yes, going to get married."
The young man gasped. A look of surprise, of amusement, then of
generous sympathy came over his face. He grasped Lawton's hand.
"Who is she?"
"Oh, a woman I wanted more than anything in the world when I was
about your age."
"Then she isn't young?"
"She is better than young."
"Well," agreed the young man, "being young and pretty is not
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