| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: Such a memory as that is a great misfortune. To it, all occurrences
are of the same size. Its possessor cannot distinguish an interesting
circumstance from an uninteresting one. As a talker, he is bound
to clog his narrative with tiresome details and make himself
an insufferable bore. Moreover, he cannot stick to his subject.
He picks up every little grain of memory he discerns in his way,
and so is led aside. Mr. Brown would start out with the honest
intention of telling you a vastly funny anecdote about a dog.
He would be 'so full of laugh' that he could hardly begin; then his
memory would start with the dog's breed and personal appearance;
drift into a history of his owner; of his owner's family,
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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: maitre du monde, qui est le maitre de tout, m'aime beaucoup. Il
vient de m'envoyer des cadeaux de grande valeur. Aussi il m'a
promis de citer e Rome le roi de Cappadoce qui est mon ennemi.
Peut-etre e Rome il le crucifiera. Il peut faire tout ce qu'il
veut, Cesar. Enfin, il est le maitre. Ainsi, vous voyez, j'ai le
droit d'etre heureux. Il n'y a rien au monde qui puisse gater mon
plaisir.
LA VOIX D'IOKANAAN. Il sera assis sur son trone. Il sera vetu de
pourpre et d'ecarlate. Dans sa main il portera un vase d'or plein
de ses blasphemes. Et l'ange du Seigneur Dieu le frappera. Il sera
mange des vers.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: only way in which it has been able to bear them. And that,
consequently, whatever the world has treated seriously belongs to
the comedy side of things.
LADY HUNSTANTON. Now I am quite out of my depth. I usually am
when Lord Illingworth says anything. And the Humane Society is
most careless. They never rescue me. I am left to sink. I have a
dim idea, dear Lord Illingworth, that you are always on the side of
the sinners, and I know I always try to be on the side of the
saints, but that is as far as I get. And after all, it may be
merely the fancy of a drowning person.
LORD ILLINGWORTH. The only difference between the saint and the
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