| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: wood made a good blaze in the grate, the kettle was boiled, and cups
were procured and washed. Ten minutes later the friends were dining
in the library.
Nightspore ate and drank little, but Maskull sat down with good
appetite. There being no milk, whisky took the place of it; the
nearly black tea was mixed with an equal quantity of the spirit. Of
this concoction Maskull drank cup after cup, and long after the
tongue had disappeared he was still imbibing.
Nightspore looked at him queerly. "Do you intend to finish the
bottle before Krag comes?"
"Krag won't want any, and one must do something. I feel restless."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: onto sunset now, and we care not to sleep out again
this night as we did the last. We will tarry with you
then till morn that we may take up our journey re-
freshed, upon rested steeds."
The old man grumbled, and it was with poor grace
that he took them in to feed and house them over night.
But there was nothing else for it, since they would have
taken his hospitality by force had he refused to give it
voluntarily.
From their guests the two learned something of the
conditions outside their Derby hills. The old man
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: If I were to write down all the surging thoughts that filled my
brain this would have to be a Novel instead of a Short Story. And
I am not one who beleives in beginning the life of Letters with a
long work. I think one should start with breif Romanse. For is not
Romanse itself but breif, the thing of an hour, at least to the
Other Sex?
Women and girls, having no interest outside their hearts, such as
baseball and hockey and earning saleries, are more likely to hug
Romanse to their breasts, until it is finaly drowned in their tears.
I pass over the next few days, therfore, mearly stating that my
AFFAIRE DE COUER went on rapidly, and that Leila was sulkey AND HAD
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