| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: to me!
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. I owe you much. And now tell me what you were
going to ask me just now as Lord Caversham came in.
LORD GORING. Robert, you are your sister's guardian, and I want your
consent to my marriage with her. That is all.
LADY CHILTERN. Oh, I am so glad! I am so glad! [Shakes hands with
LORD GORING.]
LORD GORING. Thank you, Lady Chiltern.
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. [With a troubled look.] My sister to be your
wife?
LORD GORING. Yes.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: trusted. Young women are green. [DR. CHASUBLE starts.] I spoke
horticulturally. My metaphor was drawn from fruits. But where is
Cecily?
CHASUBLE. Perhaps she followed us to the schools.
[Enter JACK slowly from the back of the garden. He is dressed in
the deepest mourning, with crape hatband and black gloves.]
MISS PRISM. Mr. Worthing!
CHASUBLE. Mr. Worthing?
MISS PRISM. This is indeed a surprise. We did not look for you
till Monday afternoon.
JACK. [Shakes MISS PRISM'S hand in a tragic manner.] I have
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Several Works by Edgar Allan Poe: were the incidents of half an hour.
But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious.
When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his
presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the
knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep
seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys. This was an extensive
and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own
eccentric yet august taste. A strong and lofty wall girdled it in.
This wall had gates of iron. The courtiers, having entered,
brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts. They
resolved to leave means neither of ingress nor egress to the sudden
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