| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: bouche est comme une branche de corail que des pecheurs ont trouvee
dans le crepuscule de la mer et qu'ils reservent pour les rois . . .
! Elle est comme le vermillon que les Moabites trouvent dans les
mines de Moab et que les rois leur prennent. Elle est comme l'arc
du roi des Perses qui est peint avec du vermillon et qui a des
cornes de corail. Il n'y a rien au monde d'aussi rouge que ta
bouche . . . laisse-moi baiser ta bouche.
IOKANAAN. Jamais! fille de Babylone! Fille de Sodome! jamais.
SALOME. Je baiserai ta bouche, Iokanaan. Je baiserai ta bouche.
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Princesse, princesse, toi qui es comme un bouquet
de myrrhe, toi qui es la colombe des colombes, ne regarde pas cet
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: were playing on their pipes, and had not so much as a thought of
danger. When those who were in ambush saw this, they cut off the
flocks and herds and killed the shepherds. Meanwhile the
besiegers, when they heard much noise among the cattle as they
sat in council, sprang to their horses, and made with all speed
towards them; when they reached them they set battle in array by
the banks of the river, and the hosts aimed their bronze-shod
spears at one another. With them were Strife and Riot, and fell
Fate who was dragging three men after her, one with a fresh
wound, and the other unwounded, while the third was dead, and she
was dragging him along by his heel: and her robe was bedrabbled
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: with oaths that she had never heard, he leaped at her in savage
passion; clutched her as she recoiled; and in the very act, stumbled
and drooped. She had scarce time to fear his murderous onslaught
ere he fell before her feet.
He rose upon one elbow; she still staring upon him, white with
horror.
'Anna!' he cried, 'Anna! Help!'
And then his utterance failed him, and he fell back, to all
appearance dead.
Seraphina ran to and fro in the room; she wrung her hands and cried
aloud; within she was all one uproar of terror, and conscious of no
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