| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber: "But, Emma, you're joking!"
She stared, suddenly serious.
"You mean--you don't like it!"
"Like it! For a fancy-dress costume, yes; but as a petticoat
for every-day wear, to be made up by us for our customers! But
of course you're playing a trick on me." He laughed a little
weakly and came toward her. "You can't catch me that way, old
girl! It's darned becoming, Emma--I'll say that." He bent down,
smiling. "I'll allow you to kiss me. And then try me with the
real surprise, will you?"
Her coquetry vanished. Her smile fled with it. Her pretty pose
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: HERODE. Salome, fille d'Herodias, dansez pour moi.
HERODIAS. Laissez la tranquille.
HERODE. Je vous ordonne de danser, Salome.
SALOME. Je ne danserai pas, tetrarque.
HERODIAS [riant] Voile comme elle vous obeit!
HERODE. Qu'est-ce que cela me fait qu'elle danse ou non? Cela ne
me fait rien. Je suis heureux ce soir. Je suis tres heureux.
Jamais je n'ai ete si heureux.
LE PREMIER SOLDAT. Il a l'air sombre, le tetrarque. N'est-ce pas
qu'il a l'air sombre?
LE SECOND SOLDAT. Il a l'air sombre.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: for a man of his standing than for an obscure Assistant
Commissioner. Private Citizen Heat entered the street, manoeuvring
in a way which in a member of the criminal classes would have been
stigmatised as slinking. The piece of cloth picked up in Greenwich
was in his pocket. Not that he had the slightest intention of
producing it in his private capacity. On the contrary, he wanted
to know just what Mr Verloc would be disposed to say voluntarily.
He hoped Mr Verloc's talk would be of a nature to incriminate
Michaelis. It was a conscientiously professional hope in the main,
but not without its moral value. For Chief Inspector Heat was a
servant of justice. Find - Mr Verloc from home, he felt
The Secret Agent |
