| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: and begged him to let me know beforehand what day he would
arrive, so that I could be there to meet him.
I gave my servant my address in the country, telling him to bring
me the first letter that came with the postmark of C., then I
returned to Bougival.
Marguerite was waiting for me at the garden gate. She looked at
me anxiously. Throwing her arms round my neck, she said to me:
"Have you seen Prudence?"
"No."
"You were a long time in Paris."
"I found letters from my father to which I had to reply."
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: fleur d'argent. [Entre Salome.]
SALOME. Je ne resterai pas. Je ne peux pu rester. Pourquoi le
tetrarque me regarde-t-il toujours avec ses yeux de taupe sous ses
paupieres tremblantes? . . . C'est etrange que le mari de ma mere me
regarde comme cela. Je ne sais pas ce que cela veut dire . . . Au
fait, si, je le sais.
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Vous venez de quitter le festin, princesse?
SALOME. Comme l'air est frais ici! Enfin, ici on respire! Le-
dedans il y a des Juifs de Jerusalem qui se dechirent e cause de
leurs ridicules ceremonies, et des barbares qui boivent toujours et
jettent leur vin sur les dalles, et des Grecs de Smyrne avec leurs
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Custer crumpled forward to the ground, and three bodies
fell upon his. A moment later there was a second volley--
all had not fallen at the first. Then the soldiers came among
the bodies, searching for signs of life; but evidently the two
volleys had done their work. The sergeant formed his men
in line. The lieutenant marched them away. Only silence
remained on guard above the pitiful dead in the factory
yard.
The day wore on and still the stiffening corpses lay where
they had fallen. Twilight came and then darkness. A head
appeared above the top of the wall that had enclosed the
The Mad King |
