| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: chills me when I think of it and maddens me when I dream of it.
That glimpse, like all dread glimpses of truth, flashed out from
an accidental piecing together of separated things - in this case
an old newspaper item and the notes of a dead professor. I hope
that no one else will accomplish this piecing out; certainly,
if I live, I shall never knowingly supply a link in so hideous
a chain. I think that the professor, too intented to keep silent
regarding the part he knew, and that he would have destroyed his
notes had not sudden death seized him.
My knowledge of the thing
began in the winter of 1926-27 with the death of my great-uncle,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: was possible to lose sight of civilisation in a very short time,
passing only an occasional farmhouse, where the women were handling
red roots in the courtyard; or a little boy lying on his elbows on
the hillside surrounded by a flock of black strong-smelling goats.
Save for a thread of water at the bottom, the river was merely
a deep channel of dry yellow stones. On the bank grew those trees
which Helen had said it was worth the voyage out merely to see.
April had burst their buds, and they bore large blossoms among
their glossy green leaves with petals of a thick wax-like substance
coloured an exquisite cream or pink or deep crimson. But filled with
one of those unreasonable exultations which start generally from an
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy: efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period
is required. . .not because the Communists may be doing it,
not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
it cannot save the few who are rich.
To our sister republics south of our border: we offer a special pledge. . .
to convert our good words into good deeds. . .in a new alliance for progress
. . .to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of
poverty. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of
hostile powers. Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them
to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. . .and let
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