| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: Permettez-moi de vous reconduire.
SALOME. Le prophete . . . est-ce un vieillard?
PREMIER SOLDAT. Non, princesse, c'est un tout jeune homme.
SECOND SOLDAT. On ne le sait pas. Il y en a qui disent que c'est
Elie?
SALOME. Qui est Elie?
SECOND SOLDAT. Un tres ancien prophete de ce pays, princesse.
UN ESCLAVE. Quelle reponse dois-je donner au tetrarque de la part
de la princesse?
LA VOIX D'IOKANAAN. Ne te rejouis point, terre de Palestine, parce
que la verge de celui qui te frappait a ete brisee. Car de la race
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Death of the Lion by Henry James: my peculiar charge, just as circumstances had made Neil Paraday.
She would be another person to look after, so that one's honour
would be concerned in guiding her straight. These things became
clearer to me later on; at the instant I had scepticism enough to
observe to her, as I turned the pages of her volume, that her net
had all the same caught many a big fish. She appeared to have had
fruitful access to the great ones of the earth; there were people
moreover whose signatures she had presumably secured without a
personal interview. She couldn't have worried George Washington
and Friedrich Schiller and Hannah More. She met this argument, to
my surprise, by throwing up the album without a pang. It wasn't
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: "You certainly won't leave me!" cried Winterbourne.
She burst into her little laugh. "Are you afraid you'll get lost--
or run over? But there's Giovanelli, leaning against that tree.
He's staring at the women in the carriages: did you ever see
anything so cool?"
Winterbourne perceived at some distance a little man standing with
folded arms nursing his cane. He had a handsome face, an artfully
poised hat, a glass in one eye, and a nosegay in his buttonhole.
Winterbourne looked at him a moment and then said, "Do you mean
to speak to that man?"
"Do I mean to speak to him? Why, you don't suppose I mean
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