| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: walls. A sense of oneness with Nature and the beat of
Her eternal heart filled her soul. The soft wash of
the water on the sands seemed to be keeping time to the
throb of her own pulse.
She peered curiously into the face of her sleeping
lover. She had never seen him asleep before. She
started at the transformation wrought by the closing of
his heavy eyelids and the complete relaxation of his
features. The strange, steel-blue coloring of his eyes
had always given his face an air of mystery and charm.
The complete closing of the heavy lids and the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: the water was just low enough, bade farewell to our escort before
crossing to the Natal side. My parting with Goza was quite
touching, for we felt that it partook of the nature of a deathbed
adieu, which indeed it did. I told him and the others that I
hoped their ends be easy, and that whether they met them by
bullets or by bayonet thrusts, the wounds would prove quickly
mortal so that they might not linger in discomfort or pain.
Recognizing my kind thought for their true welfare they thanked
me for it, though with no enthusiasm. Indudu, however, filled
with the spirit of repartee, or rather of "tu quoque", said in
his melancholy fashion that if he and I came face to face in war,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: regarder de pres.
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Non, non, princesse!
SALOME. Il faut que je le regarde de pres.
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Princesse! Princesse!
IOKANAAN. Qui est cette femme qui me regarde? Je ne veux pas
qu'elle me regarde. Pourquoi me regarde-t-elle avec ses yeux d'or
sous ses paupieres dorees? Je ne sais pas qui c'est. Je ne veux
pas le savoir. Dites-lui de s'en aller. Ce n'est pas e elle que je
veux parler.
SALOME. Je suis Salome, fille d'Herodias, princesse de Judee.
IOKANAAN. Arriere! Fille de Babylone! N'approchez pas de l'elu du
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