| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: and then in the United States - and though of much complexity
and indisputable newness, it reproduced in every least particular
the mystifying words of the strange Arkham patient of 1908.
Physical
strength returned at once, although I required an odd amount of
re-education in the use of my hands, legs, and bodily apparatus
in general. Because of this and other handicaps inherent in the
mnemonic lapse, I was for some time kept under strict medical
care.
When I saw that my attempts to conceal the lapse had failed,
I admitted it openly, and became eager for information of all
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac: scarcely exist otherwise in a man who was accustomed from his
youth to dissect the creature above all others--before, during,
and after life; to hunt through all his organs without ever
finding the individual soul, which is indispensable to religious
theory. When he detected a cerebral centre, a nervous centre, and
a centre for aerating the blood--the first two so perfectly
complementary that in the latter years of his life he came to a
conviction that the sense of hearing is not absolutely necessary
for hearing, nor the sense of sight for seeing, and that the
solar plexus could supply their place without any possibility of
doubt--Desplein, thus finding two souls in man, confirmed his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Torn looked up to anything: God, man or devil. It
being more his way to look down upon all creatures
whom he took the trouble to notice at all.
As his glance rested upon this woman, whom fate
had destined to alter the entire course of his life, Nor-
man of Torn saw that she was beautiful, and that she
was of that class against whom he had preyed for
years with his band of outlaw cut-throats. Then he
turned once more to face her enemies with the strange
inconsistency which had ever marked his methods.
Tomorrow he might be assaulting the ramparts of
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