| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: The singer, who is Love, will make a pipe
And from them he draws music; so I think
Love will bring music out of any life.
Is that not true?
GUIDO
Sweet, women make it true.
There are men who paint pictures, and carve statues,
Paul of Verona and the dyer's son,
Or their great rival, who, by the sea at Venice,
Has set God's little maid upon the stair,
White as her own white lily, and as tall,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: Kane staked his all. He signalled to the engineer for every pound
of steam - and at that moment (I am told) much of the machinery was
already red-hot. The ship was sheered well to starboard of the
VANDALIA, the last remaining cable slipped. For a time - and there
was no onlooker so cold-blooded as to offer a guess at its duration
- the CALLIOPE lay stationary; then gradually drew ahead. The
highest speed claimed for her that day is of one sea-mile an hour.
The question of times and seasons, throughout all this roaring
business, is obscured by a dozen contradictions; I have but chosen
what appeared to be the most consistent; but if I am to pay any
attention to the time named by Admiral Kimberley, the CALLIOPE, in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: the gods?
FIRST MAN. We have seen many of them. One sees them chiefly at
night time. They pass one by very swiftly. Once we saw some of the
gods at daybreak. They were walking across a plain.
MYRRHINA. Once as I was passing through the market place I heard a
sophist from Cilicia say that there is only one God. He said it
before many people.
FIRST MAN. That cannot be true. We have ourselves seen many,
though we are but common men and of no account. When I saw them I
hid myself in a bush. They did me no harm.
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