| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: misbelieved have I allowed to range at large; and then it caught
them up! How then was my punishment?
Shall He who is standing over every soul (to note) what it has
earned-? And they join partners with God! Say, 'Name them; can ye
inform Him of what He does not know in the earth? or is it for
name's sake only (that ye call upon them)?
Nay, then, stratagem is made seemly to those who misbelieve, and
they turn folks from the path of God! But whomsoever God doth lead
astray, no guide has he.'
For them is torment in this world's life; but surely the torment
of the next is more wretched still- nor have they against God a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: measures, which forfeits the respect and confidence of other
nations, poisons the blessings of liberty itself, and diminishes
the attachment and reverence of the people toward a political
system which betrays so many marks of infirmity."
Jefferson himself, the greatest Democrat whom the democracy
of America has yet produced, pointed out the same evils. "The
instability of our laws," said he in a letter to Madison, "is
really a very serious inconvenience. I think that we ought to
have obviated it by deciding that a whole year should always be
allowed to elapse between the bringing in of a bill and the final
passing of it. It should afterward be discussed and put to the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: particular with what I had taken so much trouble to put together.
This suggests that the opening scene had never been written, as Mr.
Willard's version began where mine did. It was characteristic of
the author to finish what he never began.
When the Literary Theatre Society produced Salome in 1906 they asked
me for some other short drama by Wilde to present at the same time,
as Salome does not take very long to play. I offered them the
fragment of A Florentine Tragedy. By a fortunate coincidence the
poet and dramatist, Mr. Thomas Sturge Moore, happened to be on the
committee of this Society, and to him was entrusted the task of
writing an opening scene to make the play complete. {1} It is not
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