| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: LE SECOND NAZAREEN. Il est partout, Seigneur, mais il est tres
difficile de le trouver.
LE PREMIER NAZAREEN. On dit qu'il est en Samarie e present.
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
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: peace and purity, to pray for him whom neither warnings nor caresses
will amend? It is a sad book, "Sintram." And yet not too sad. For
they were a sad people, those old Norse forefathers of ours. Their
Christianity was sad; their minsters sad; there are few sadder,
though few grander, buildings than a Norman church.
And yet, perhaps, their Christianity did not make them sad. It was
but the other and the healthier side of that sadness which they had
as heathens. Read which you will of the old sagas--heathen or half-
Christian--the Eyrbiggia, Viga Glum, Burnt Niall, Grettir the
Strong, and, above all, Snorri Sturluson's "Heimskringla" itself--
and you will see at once how sad they are. There is, in the old
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: thousand.
MASTER. - But why did not your side recover you from the hands of
your enemies, then?
FRIDAY. - They run, one, two, three, and me, and make go in the
canoe; my nation have no canoe that time.
MASTER. - Well, Friday, and what does your nation do with the men
they take? Do they carry them away and eat them, as these did?
FRIDAY. - Yes, my nation eat mans too; eat all up.
MASTER. - Where do they carry them?
FRIDAY. - Go to other place, where they think.
MASTER. - Do they come hither?
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