| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: still more amused; she laughed till he laughed, too, without knowing
why. It seemed to her very odd that he should know as much about
breeding bulldogs as any man in England; that he had a collection of
wild flowers found near London; and his weekly visit to old Miss
Trotter at Ealing, who was an authority upon the science of Heraldry,
never failed to excite her laughter. She wanted to know everything,
even the kind of cake which the old lady supplied on these occasions;
and their summer excursions to churches in the neighborhood of London
for the purpose of taking rubbings of the brasses became most
important festivals, from the interest she took in them. In six months
she knew more about his odd friends and hobbies than his own brothers
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: it, but that austere patriarch insisted that the path of duty
lay with the tribe and the army. So Carter set out alone over
the golden fields that stretched mysterious beside a willow-fringed
river, and the cats went back into the wood.
Well did the traveller
know those garden lands that lie betwixt the wood of the Cerenerian
Sea, and blithely did he follow the singing river Oukianos that
marked his course. The sun rose higher over gentle slopes of grove
and lawn, and heightened the colours of the thousand flowers that
starred each knoll and dangle. A blessed haze lies upon all this
region, wherein is held a little more of the sunlight than other
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Butzow," he said suddenly to the lieutenant of horse,
"how many do you imagine know positively that he who
has ruled Lutha for the past two days and he who was
crowned in the cathedral this noon are not one and the
same?"
"Only a few besides those who are in this room, your
majesty," replied Butzow. "Peter and Coblich have known
it from the first, and then there is Kramer, the loyal old
shopkeeper of Tafelberg, who followed Coblich and Maenck
all night and half a day as they dragged the king to the
hiding-place where we found him. Other than these there
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