| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: d'Edom dans le pays des Edomites. Tes cheveux sont comme les cedres
du Liban, comme les grands cedres du Liban qui donnent de l'ombre
aux lions et aux voleurs qui veulent se cacher pendant la journee.
Les longues nuits noires, les nuits ou la lune ne se montre pas, ou
les etoiles ont peur, ne sont pas aussi noires. Le silence qui
demeure dans les forets n'est pas aussi noir. Il n'y a rien au
monde d'aussi noir que tes cheveux . . . Laisse-moi toucher tes
cheveux.
IOKANAAN. Arriere, fille de Sodome! Ne me touchez pas. Il ne faut
pas profaner le temple du Seigneur Dieu.
SALOME. Tes cheveux sont horribles. Ils sont couverts de boue et
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the upper end of his spinal column. Into this aperture I insert
my tentacles and seize the spinal cord. Immediately I control
every muscle of the rykor's body--it becomes my own, just as you
direct the movement of the muscles of your body. I feel what the
rykor would feel if he had a head and brain. If he is hurt, I
would suffer if I remained connected with him; but the instant
one of them is injured or becomes sick we desert it for another.
As we would suffer the pains of their physical injuries,
similarly do we enjoy the physical pleasures of the rykors. When
your body becomes fatigued you are comparatively useless; it is
sick, you are sick; if it is killed, you die. You are the slave
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: gilded ball screwed on, measuring two feet in diameter, and
forming the principal ventilator at the upper extremity of the
cupola of the light-room. At Mr. Hamilton's desire, a salute
of seven guns was fired on this occasion, and, all hands being
called to the quarter-deck, `Stability to the Bell Rock
Lighthouse' was not forgotten.
[Tuesday, 30th Oct.]
On reaching the rock it was found that a very heavy sea
still ran upon it; but the writer having been disappointed on
two former occasions, and, as the erection of the house might
now be considered complete, there being nothing wanted
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