| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: Flaming in the phoenix' sight:
Either was the other's mine.
Property was thus appall'd,
That the self was not the same;
Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was call'd.
Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together;
To themselves yet either-neither,
Simple were so well compounded.
That it cried how true a twain
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: originality, two rare qualities because the one is apt to exclude the
other. On this occasion he talked for nearly half an hour with madame
de Listomere, without any predetermined idea of pleasing her. As they
followed the caprices of conversation, which, beginning with the opera
of "Guillaume Tell," had reached the topic of the duties of women, he
looked at the marquise, more than once, in a manner that embarrassed
her; then he left her and did not speak to her again for the rest of
the evening. He danced, played at ecarte, lost some money, and went
home to bed. I have the honor to assure you that the affair happened
precisely thus. I add nothing, and I suppress nothing.
The next morning Rastignac woke late and stayed in bed, giving himself
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: ailleurs. Je ne veux pas le voir . . . Emportez-le . . . [On
emporte le cadavre.] Il fait froid ici. Il y a du vent ici.
N'est-ce pas qu'il y a du vent?
HERODIAS. Mais non. Il n'y a pas de vent.
HERODE. Mais si, il y a du vent . . . Et j'entends dans l'air
quelque chose comme un battement d'ailes, comme un battement d'ailes
gigantesques. Ne l'entendez-vous pas?
HERODIAS. Je n'entends rien.
HERODE. Je ne l'entends plus moi-meme. Mais je l'ai entendu.
C'etait le vent sans doute. C'est passe. Mais non, je l'entends
encore. Ne l'entendez-vous pas? C'est tout e fait comme un
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