| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: You will have treated them handsomely, and, whatever happens, you will
be glad of it." Mr. Wentworth was liberal, and he knew he was liberal.
It gave him pleasure to know it, to feel it, to see it recorded;
and this pleasure is the only palpable form of self-indulgence with
which the narrator of these incidents will be able to charge him.
"A three days' visit at most, over there, is all I should
have found possible," Madame Munster remarked to her brother,
after they had taken possession of the little white house.
"It would have been too intime--decidedly too intime.
Breakfast, dinner, and tea en famille--it would have been the end
of the world if I could have reached the third day." And she made
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: chair and sparkled with gems, as did everything else. In the
center of the chair was an enormous Head, without a body to
support it or any arms or legs whatever. There was no hair upon
this head, but it had eyes and a nose and mouth, and was much
bigger than the head of the biggest giant.
As Dorothy gazed upon this in wonder and fear, the eyes turned
slowly and looked at her sharply and steadily. Then the mouth
moved, and Dorothy heard a voice say:
"I am Oz, the Great and Terrible. Who are you, and why do you
seek me?"
It was not such an awful voice as she had expected to come
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: flight-companion Carroll. How to account for such things in this
place was frankly beyond me, and I felt queerly humbled as a geologist.
Igneous formations often have strange regularities - like the
famous Giants� Causeway in Ireland - but this stupendous range,
despite Lake�s original suspicion of smoking cones, was above
all else nonvolcanic in evident structure.
The curious cave
mouths, near which the odd formations seemed most abundant, presented
another albeit a lesser puzzle because of their regularity of
outline. They were, as Lake�s bulletin had said, often approximately
square or semicircular; as if the natural orifices had been shaped
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