| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: La tete d'un homme decapitee, c'est une chose laide, n'est-ce pas?
Ce n'est pas une chose qu'une vierge doive regarder. Quel plaisir
cela pourrait-il vous donner? Aucun. Non, non, vous ne voulez pas
cela . . . Ecoutez-moi un instant. J'ai une emeraude, une grande
emeraude ronde que le favori de Cesar m'a envoyee. Si vous
regardiez e travers cette emeraude vous pourriez voir des choses qui
se passent e une distance immense. Cesar lui-meme en porte une tout
e fait pareille quand il va au cirque. Mais la mienne est plus
grande. Je sais bien qu'elle est plus grande. C'est la plus grande
emeraude du monde. N'est-ce pas que vous voulez cela? Demandez-moi
cela et je vous le donnerai.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: fitted, in a manner highly useful to them, for short and frequent
migrations from pond to pond, or from stream to stream; and liability to
wide dispersal would follow from this capacity as an almost necessary
consequence. We can here consider only a few cases. In regard to fish, I
believe that the same species never occur in the fresh waters of distant
continents. But on the same continent the species often range widely and
almost capriciously; for two river-systems will have some fish in common
and some different. A few facts seem to favour the possibility of their
occasional transport by accidental means; like that of the live fish not
rarely dropped by whirlwinds in India, and the vitality of their ova when
removed from the water. But I am inclined to attribute the dispersal of
On the Origin of Species |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The United States Bill of Rights: or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
II
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house,
without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war,
but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
IV
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