| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: pas? As-tu peur de moi, Iokanaan, que tu ne veux pas me regarder? .
. . Et ta langue qui etait comme un serpent rouge dardant des
poisons, elle ne remue plus, elle ne dit rien maintenant, Iokanaan,
cette vipere rouge qui a vomi son venin sur moi. C'est etrange,
n'est-ce pas? Comment se fait-il que la vipere rouge ne remue plus?
. . . Tu n'as pas voulu de moi, Iokanaan. Tu m'as rejetee. Tu m'as
dit des choses infames. Tu m'as traitee comme une courtisane, comme
une prostituee, moi, Salome, fille d'Herodias, Princesse de Judee!
Eh bien, Iokanaan, moi je vis encore, mais toi tu es mort et ta tete
m'appartient. Je puis en faire ce que je veux. Je puis la jeter
aux chiens et aux oiseaux de l'air. Ce que laisseront les chiens,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac: the poor man and the rich man? This book is written to throw some
light upon that terrible social question.
It is easy to understand the perplexities which assailed the general
after he had dismissed Gaubertin. While saying to himself, vaguely,
like other persons free to do or not to do a thing, "I'll dismiss that
scamp"; he had overlooked the risk and forgotten the explosion of his
boiling anger,--the anger of a choleric fire-eater at the moment when
a flagrant imposition forced him to raise the lids of his wilfully
blind eyes.
Montcornet, a land-owner for the first time and a denizen of Paris,
had not provided himself with a steward before coming to Les Aigues;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: the highlands of Asia, he descends from station to station
towards Europe. Each of his steps is marked by a new civilization
superior to the preceding, by a greater power of development.
Arrived at the Atlantic, he pauses on the shore of this unknown
ocean, the bounds of which he knows not, and turns upon his
footprints for an instant." When he has exhausted the rich soil
of Europe, and reinvigorated himself, "then recommences his
adventurous career westward as in the earliest ages." So far
Guyot.
From this western impulse coming in contact with the barrier of
the Atlantic sprang the commerce and enterprise of modern times.
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