| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: UN JUIF. On voit bien que ce n'est le Messie, s'il est en Samarie.
Ce n'est pas aux Samaritains que le Messie viendra. Les Samaritains
sont maudits. Ils n'apportent jamais d'offrandes au temple.
LE SECOND NAZAREEN. Il a quitte la Samarie il y a quelques jours.
Moi, je crois qu'en ce moment-ci il est dans les environs de
Jerusalem.
LE PREMIER NAZAREEN. Mais non, il n'est pas le. Je viens justement
d'arriver de Jerusalem. On n'a pas entendu parler de lui depuis
deux mois.
HERODE. Enfin, cela ne fait rien! Mais il faut le trouver et lui
dire de ma part que je ne lui permets pas de ressusciter les morts.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Padre Ignacio by Owen Wister: into the planted fields, whence women and children began to return; then
out of the lap of the valley along the yellow uplands, where the men that
rode among the cattle paused, looking down like birds at the map of their
home. Then the sound widened, faint, unbroken, until it met Temptation in
the guise of a youth, riding toward the Padre from the South, and cheered
the steps of Temptation's jaded horse.
"For a day, one single day of Paris!" repeated the Padre, gazing through
his cloisters at the empty sea.
Once in the year the mother-world remembered him. Once in the year, from
Spain, tokens and home-tidings came to him, sent by certain beloved
friends of his youth. A barkentine brought him these messages. Whenever
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: would have none of me."
I sat bolt upright at that and gasped.
"The Armstrongs!" I repeated. "With old Peter Armstrong driving
a stage across the mountains while your grandfather was war
governor--"
"Well, of course, the war governor's dead, and out of the
matrimonial market," Halsey interrupted. "And the present Innes
admits himself he isn't good enough for--for Louise."
"Exactly," I said despairingly, "and, of course, you are taken at
your own valuation. The Inneses are not always so self-
depreciatory."
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