| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: foods, but certain multicellular protoplasmic masses capable of
molding their tissues into all sorts of temporary organs under
hypnotic influence and thereby forming ideal slaves to perform
the heavy work of the community. These viscous masses were without
doubt what Abdul Alhazred whispered about as the "Shoggoths" in
his frightful Necronomicon, though even that mad Arab had not
hinted that any existed on earth except in the dreams of those
who had chewed a certain alkaloidal herb. When the star-headed
Old Ones on this planet had synthesized their simple food forms
and bred a good supply of Shoggoths, they allowed other cell groups
to develop into other forms of animal and vegetable life for sundry
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Z. Marcas by Honore de Balzac: He saw the look that passed between Juste and me, and went on:
"Yes, far too much. The woman you buy--and she is the least expensive
--takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself takes all
your time! Woman extinguishes every energy, every ambition. Napoleon
reduced her to what she should be. From that point of view, he really
was great. He did not indulge such ruinous fancies of Louis XIV. and
Louis XV.; at the same time he could love in secret."
We discovered that, like Pitt, who made England is wife, Marcas bore
France in his heart; he idolized his country; he had not a thought
that was not for his native land. His fury at feeling that he had in
his hands the remedy for the evils which so deeply saddened him, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: day that old Major, the prize Middle White boar, had had a strange dream
on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals.
It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as
Mr. Jones was safely out of the way. Old Major (so he was always called,
though the name under which he had been exhibited was Willingdon Beauty)
was so highly regarded on the farm that everyone was quite ready to lose
an hour's sleep in order to hear what he had to say.
At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was
already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a
beam. He was twelve years old and had lately grown rather stout, but he
was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in
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