| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: merely in the narrow light in which he is estimated by most modern
critics, as the explicit champion of rationalism and nothing more.
For he is connected with another idea, the course of which is as
the course of that great river of his native Arcadia which,
springing from some arid and sun-bleached rock, gathers strength
and beauty as it flows till it reaches the asphodel meadows of
Olympia and the light and laughter of Ionian waters.
For in him we can discern the first notes of that great cult of the
seven-hilled city which made Virgil write his epic and Livy his
history, which found in Dante its highest exponent, which dreamed
of an Empire where the Emperor would care for the bodies and the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: suddenly filled the girl with doubts as to the man's madness
-- evidently he was quite safe among the apes, for she saw
him swing Go-lat to his back and then catapult him over his
shoulder. The king ape fell upon his head and lay very still.
"I am Tarzan of the Apes!" cried the ape-man. "I come to
dance the Dum-Dum with my brothers," and he made a mo-
tion to the drummers, who immediately took up the cadence
of the dance where they had dropped it to watch their king
slay the foolish Tarmangani.
It was then that Go-lat raised his head and slowly crawled
to his feet. Tarzan approached him. "I am Tarzan of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Sign of the Cat & Racket by Honore de Balzac: antique drapery."
"So you like drapery!" cried old Guillaume. "Well, then, by Gad! shake
hands on that, my young friend. Since you can respect trade, we shall
understand each other. And why should it be despised? The world began
with trade, since Adam sold Paradise for an apple. He did not strike a
good bargain though!" And the old man roared with honest laughter,
encouraged by the champagne, which he sent round with a liberal hand.
The band that covered the young artist's eyes was so thick that he
thought his future parents amiable. He was not above enlivening them
by a few jests in the best taste. So he too pleased every one. In the
evening, when the drawing-room, furnished with what Madame Guillaume
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