| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: the male who begets it; whether an act of infidelity on the part of the
male shall or shall not terminate the contract which binds his female
companion to him, as completely as an act of infidelity on her part would
terminate her claim on him; it is not a matter of indifference whether a
body elected to adjudicate on such points as these consists of males
solely, or females solely, or of both combined. As it consists of one, or
the other, or of both, so not only will the answers vary, but, in some
cases, will they be completely diverse. Here we come into that very
narrow, but important, region, where sex as sex manifestly plays its part;
where the male as male and the female as female have each their body of
perceptions and experiences, which they do not hold in common; here one sex
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: IOKANAAN. Je ne veux pas te regarder. Je ne te regarderai pas. Tu
es maudite, Salome, tu es maudite. [Il descend dans la citerne.]
SALOME. Je baiserai ta bouche, Iokanaan, je baiserai ta bouche.
LE PREMIER SOLDAT. Il faut faire transporter le cadavre ailleurs.
Le tetrarque n'aime pas regarder les cadavres, sauf les cadavres de
ceux qu'il a tues lui-meme.
LE PAGE D'HERODIAS. Il etait mon frere, et plus proche qu'un frere.
Je lui ai donne une petite boite qui contenait des parfums, et une
bague d'agate qu'il portait toujours e la main. Le soir nous nous
promenions au bord de la riviere et parmi les amandiers et il me
racontait des choses de son pays. Il parlait toujours tres bas. Le
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: CRABTREE. Yes and she is a curious Being to pretend to be
censorious--an awkward Gawky, without any one good Point
under Heaven!
LADY SNEERWELL. Positively you shall not be so very severe.
Miss Sallow is a Relation of mine by marriage, and, as for
her Person great allowance is to be made--for, let me tell you
a woman labours under many disadvantages who tries to pass
for a girl at six-and-thirty.
MRS. CANDOUR. Tho', surely she is handsome still--and for the
weakness in her eyes considering how much she reads by candle-light
it is not to be wonder'd at.
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