| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: lui-meme.
HERODE. Cela me semble etrange. Je pensais qu'il n'y avait que les
philosophes romains qui se tuaient. N'est-ce pas, Tigellin, que les
philosophes e Rome se tuent?
TIGELLIN. Il y en a qui se tuent, Seigneur. Ce sont les Stoiciens.
Ce sont de gens tres grossiers. Enfin, ce sont des gens tres
ridicules. Moi, je les trouve tres ridicules.
HERODE. Moi aussi. C'est ridicule de se tuer.
TIGELLIN. On rit beaucoup d'eux e Rome. L'empereur a fait un poeme
satirique contre eux. On le recite partout.
HERODE. Ah! il a fait un poeme satirique contre eux? Cesar est
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: youth a miscarriage of justice gave him several years in prison,
an experience which cast a stigma on his name and which made it
impossible for him, for many years after, to obtain honest
employment. But the world is richer, and safer, by Muller's
early misfortune. For it was this experience which threw him
back on his own peculiar talents for a livelihood, and drove him
into the police force. Had he been able to enter any other
profession, his genius might have been stunted to a mere pastime,
instead of being, as now, utilised for the public good.
Then, the red tape and bureaucratic etiquette which attaches to
every governmental department, puts the secret service men of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: that his own presence provoked. We were too far apart
to call to each other, but there was a moment at which,
at shorter range, some challenge between us, breaking the hush,
would have been the right result of our straight mutual stare.
He was in one of the angles, the one away from the house,
very erect, as it struck me, and with both hands on the ledge.
So I saw him as I see the letters I form on this page;
then, exactly, after a minute, as if to add to the spectacle,
he slowly changed his place--passed, looking at me hard all
the while, to the opposite corner of the platform. Yes, I had
the sharpest sense that during this transit he never took his
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