| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: your parent--mine to obey my honour. Let us,
therefore, both follow the path of rectitude; and of
this we may be assured, that if we are not happy, we
shall, at least, deserve to be so. Adieu! I dare not
trust myself longer with you. [Exeunt severally.
END OF THE FOURTH ACT.
ACT V. SCENE I.
DIMPLE'S Lodgings.
JESSAMY meeting JONATHAN.
JESSAMY
WELL, Mr. Jonathan, what success with the fair?
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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: singular form of government, which has no analogy with that of any
other country; for there is no more resemblance between the English
and the French constitutions than between the two lands.
Thus Marcas' place was in the political press. Being poor and unable
to secure his election, he hoped to make a sudden appearance. He
resolved on making the greatest possible sacrifice for a man of
superior intellect, to work as a subordinate to some rich and
ambitious deputy. Like a second Bonaparte, he sought his Barras; the
new Colbert hoped to find a Mazarin. He did immense services, and he
did them then and there; he assumed no importance, he made no boast,
he did not complain of ingratitude. He did them in the hope that his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: journals six or seven years ago - will know who and what I am.
The press was filled with the details of my strange amnesia in
1908-13, and much was made of the traditions of horror, madness,
and witchcraft which lurked behind the ancient Massachusetts town
then and now forming my place of residence. Yet I would have it
known that there is nothing whatever of the mad or sinister in
my heredity and early life. This is a highly important fact in
view of the shadow which fell so suddenly upon me from outside
sources.
It may be that centuries of dark brooding had given
to crumbling, whisper-haunted Arkham a peculiar vulnerability
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