| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: O Leerie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you!
For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door,
And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more;
And oh! before you hurry by with ladder and with light;
O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night!
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My Bed is a Boat
My bed is like a little boat;
Nurse helps me in when I embark;
She girds me in my sailor's coat
And starts me in the dark.
A Child's Garden of Verses |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: recognise the Pidorka of former days. No blushes, no smiles: she was
thin and worn with grief, and had wept her bright eyes away. Once some
one who took pity on her advised her to go to the witch who dwelt in
the Bear's ravine, and enjoyed the reputation of being able to cure
every disease in the world. She determined to try that last remedy:
and finally persuaded the old woman to come to her. This was on St.
John's Eve, as it chanced. Peter lay insensible on the bench, and did
not observe the newcomer. Slowly he rose, and looked about him.
Suddenly he trembled in every limb, as though he were on the scaffold:
his hair rose upon his head, and he laughed a laugh that filled
Pidorka's heart with fear.
Taras Bulba and Other Tales |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: femme hysterique qui va cherchant des amants partout. Elle est nue
aussi. Elle est toute nue. Les nuages cherchent e la vetir, mais
elle ne veut pas. Elle chancelle e travers les nuages comme une
femme ivre . . . Je suis sur qu'elle cherche des amants . . . N'est-
ce pas qu'elle chancelle comme une femme ivre? Elle ressemble e une
femme hysterique, n'est-ce pas?
HERODIAS. Non. La lune ressemble e la lune, c'est tout . . .
Rentrons Vous n'avez rien e faire ici.
HERODE. Je resterai! Manasse, mettez des tapis le. Allumez des
flambeaux. Apportez les tables d'ivoire, et les tables de jaspe.
L'air ici est delicieux. Je boirai encore du vin avec mes hotes.
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