| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: 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
Seigneur. Ta mere a rempli la terre du vin de ses iniquites, et le
cri de ses peches est arrive aux oreilles de Dieu.
SALOME. Parle encore, Iokanaan. Ta voix m'enivre.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: Dikaiosune (justice) is clearly dikaiou sunesis (understanding of the
just); but the actual word dikaion is more difficult: men are only agreed
to a certain extent about justice, and then they begin to disagree. For
those who suppose all things to be in motion conceive the greater part of
nature to be a mere receptacle; and they say that there is a penetrating
power which passes through all this, and is the instrument of creation in
all, and is the subtlest and swiftest element; for if it were not the
subtlest, and a power which none can keep out, and also the swiftest,
passing by other things as if they were standing still, it could not
penetrate through the moving universe. And this element, which
superintends all things and pierces (diaion) all, is rightly called
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: startling fact that the safe was unlocked and practically
empty. It was then that Mrs. Jonas Prim screamed.
Her scream brought Jonas and several servants upon
the scene. A careful inspection of the room disclosed the
fact that while much of value had been ignored the bur-
glar had taken the easily concealed contents of the wall
safe which represented fully ninety percentum of the
value of the personal property in Abigail Prim's apart-
ments.
Mrs. Prim scowled suspiciously upon the servants.
Who else, indeed, could have possessed the intimate
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