| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: when she made her first appearance in Provins at the Rogrons' house
was very simple. Her brown merino gown edged with green embroidery was
worn low-necked; but a tulle fichu, carefully drawn down by hidden
strings, covered her neck and shoulders, though it opened a little in
front, where its folds were caught together with a /sevigne/. Beneath
this delicate fabric Bathilde's beauties seemed all the more enticing
and coquettish. She took off her velvet bonnet and her shawl on
arriving, and showed her pretty ears adorned with what were then
called "ear-drops" in gold. She wore a little /jeannette/--a black
velvet ribbon with a heart attached--round her throat, where it shone
like the jet ring which fantastic nature had fastened round the tail
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: they remained in security among the rocks and paid no attention to
their cunning enemies.
Finally the hen, fluttering over the mound, exclaimed: "Why,
here's a path!"
So Dorothy at once clambered to where Billina sat, and there, sure
enough, was a smooth path cut between the rocks. It seemed to wind
around the mound from top to bottom, like a cork-screw, twisting here
and there between the rough boulders but always remaining level and
easy to walk upon.
Indeed, Dorothy wondered at first why the Wheelers did not roll up
this path; but when she followed it to the foot of the mound she found
Ozma of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: IOKANAAN. Fille d'adultere, il n'y a qu'un homme qui puisse te
sauver. C'est celui dont je t'ai parle. Allez le chercher. Il est
dans un bateau sur la mer de Galilee, et il parle e ses disciples.
Agenouillez-vous au bord de la mer, et appelez-le par son nom.
Quand il viendra vers vous, et il vient vers tous ceux qui
l'appellent, prosternez-vous e ses pieds et demandez-lui la
remission de vos peches.
SALOME. Laisse-moi baiser ta bouche.
IOKANAAN. Soyez maudite, fille d'une mere incestueuse, soyez
maudite.
SALOME. Je baiserai ta bouche, Iokanaan.
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