| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: PREMIER SOLDAT. Oui, c'est Herodias. C'est la femme du tetrarque.
SECOND SOLDAT. Le tetrarque aime beaucoup le vin. Il possede des
vins de trois especes. Un qui vient de l'ile de Samothrace, qui est
pourpre comme le manteau de Cesar.
LE CAPPADOCIEN. Je n'ai jamais vu Cesar.
SECOND SOLDAT. Un autre qui vient de la ville de Chypre, qui est
jaune comme de l'or.
LE CAPPADOCIEN. J'aime beaucoup l'or.
SECOND SOLDAT. Et le troisieme qui est un vin sicilien. Ce vin-le
est rouge comme le sang.
LE NUBIEN. Les dieux de mon pays aiment beaucoup le sang. Deux
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep ... tired ... or it malingers,
Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet--and here’s no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
Prufrock/Other Observations |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: part of this campaign in the slums, but the subject is too revolting to
those who are often indifferent to the agonies their fellow creatures
suffer, so long as their sensitive ears are not shocked by the mention
of so painful a subject. Here, for instance, is a sample of the kind
of region in which the Slum Sisters spend themselves:
"In an apparently respectable street near Oxford street, the Officers
where visiting one day when they saw a very dark staircase leading into
a cellar, and thinking it possible that someone might be there they
attempted to go down, and yet the staircase was so dark they thought it
impossible for anyone to be there. However, they tried again and
groped their way along in the dark for some time until at last they
In Darkest England and The Way Out |
