| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Walden by Henry David Thoreau: their bills have not yet been received -- and these are all and more
than all the ways by which money necessarily goes out in this part
of the world -- were
House ................................. $ 28.12+
Farm one year ........................... 14.72+
Food eight months ....................... 8.74
Clothing, etc., eight months ............ 8.40-3/4
Oil, etc., eight months ................. 2.00
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In all ............................ $ 61.99-3/4
I address myself now to those of my readers who have a living to
Walden |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: LE CAPPADOCIEN. De quoi parle-t-il?
PREMIER SOLDAT. Nous ne savons jamais. Quelquefois il dit des
choses epouvantables, mais il est impossible de le comprendre.
LE CAPPADOCIEN. Peut-on le voir?
PREMIER SOLDAT. Non. Le tetrarque ne le permet pas.
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. La princesse a cache son visage derriere son
eventail! Ses petites mains blanches s'agitent comme des colombes
qui s'envolent vers leurs colombiers. Elles ressemblent e des
papillons blancs. Elles sont tout e fait comme des papillons
blancs.
LE PAGE D'HERODIAS. Mais qu'est-ce que cela vous fait? Pourquoi la
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: described as his very dangerous gift of eloquence, I took an oath
that day that your evil deed should be fruitless; that I would
render it so; that the voice you had done murder to stifle should
in spite of that ring like a trumpet through the land. That was
my conception of revenge. Do you realize how I have been fulfilling
it, how I shall continue to fulfil it as occasion offers? In the
speech with which I fired the people of Rennes on the very morrow
of that deed, did you not hear the voice of Philippe de Vilmorin
uttering the ideas that were his with a fire and a passion greater
than he could have commanded because Nemesis lent me her inflaming
aid? In the voice of Omnes Omnibus at Nantes my voice again -
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