| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: sais bien que vous avez peur de lui.
HERODE. Je n'ai pas peur de lui. Je n'ai peur de personne.
HERODIAS. Si, vous avez peur de lui. Si vous n'aviez pas peur de
lui, pourquoi ne pas le livrer aux Juifs qui depuis six mois vous le
demandent?
UN JUIF. En effet, Seigneur, il serait mieux de nous le livrer.
HERODE. Assez sur ce point. Je vous ai deje donne ma reponse. Je
ne veux pas vous le livrer. C'est un homme qui a vu Dieu.
UN JUIF. Cela, c'est impossible. Personne n'a vu Dieu depuis le
prophete Elie. Lui c'est le dernier qui ait vu Dieu. En ce temps-
ci, Dieu ne se montre pas. Il se cache. Et par consequent il y a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: nearly the whole of Raeburn's works, it was too large not to
contain some that were indifferent, whether as works of art or
as portraits. Certainly the standard was remarkably high, and
was wonderfully maintained, but there were one or two pictures
that might have been almost as well away - one or two that
seemed wanting in salt, and some that you can only hope were
not successful likenesses. Neither of the portraits of Sir
Walter Scott, for instance, were very agreeable to look upon.
You do not care to think that Scott looked quite so rustic and
puffy. And where is that peaked forehead which, according to
all written accounts and many portraits, was the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: his end in a fight one day for half an hour against
three Grangerfords, and come out winner. They was
all a-horseback; he lit off of his horse and got behind
a little woodpile, and kep' his horse before him to stop
the bullets; but the Grangerfords stayed on their
horses and capered around the old man, and peppered
away at him, and he peppered away at them. Him
and his horse both went home pretty leaky and crip-
pled, but the Grangerfords had to be FETCHED home --
and one of 'em was dead, and another died the next
day. No, sir; if a body's out hunting for cowards he
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