| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: give."
Bibi-Lupin walked in.
"Monsieur le Comte," said he, "I have good news for you. Jacques
Collin, who had escaped, has been recaptured."
"And this," said Jacques Collin, addressing Monsieur de Granville, "is
the way you keep your word!--Ask your double-faced agent where he took
me."
"Where?" said the public prosecutor.
"Close to the Court, in the vaulted passage," said Bibi-Lupin.
"Take your irons off the man," said Monsieur de Granville sternly.
"And remember that you are to leave him free till further orders.--Go!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: conventional manners gone, and an overwhelming inspiration of
true conviction and scorn in her] Oh, I wont bear it: I wont put
up with the injustice of it. What right have you to set yourself
up above me like this? You boast of what you are to me--to m e,
who gave you a chance of being what you are. What chance had I?
Shame on you for a bad daughter and a stuck-up prude!
VIVIE [sitting down with a shrug, no longer confident; for her
replies, which have sounded sensible and strong to her so far,
now begin to ring rather woodenly and even priggishly against the
new tone of her mother] Dont think for a moment I set myself
above you in any way. You attacked me with the conventional
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: Which leaves our English forests bleak and bare,
Nor ever falls the swift white-feathered snow,
Nor ever doth the red-toothed lightning dare
To wake them in the silver-fretted night
When we lie weeping for some sweet sad sin, some dead delight.
Alas! they know the far Lethaean spring,
The violet-hidden waters well they know,
Where one whose feet with tired wandering
Are faint and broken may take heart and go,
And from those dark depths cool and crystalline
Drink, and draw balm, and sleep for sleepless souls, and anodyne.
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