| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson: marked for higher destinies; we loved his notice; and I have rarely
had my pride more gratified than when he sat at my father's table,
my acknowledged friend. So he walked among us, both hands full of
gifts, carrying with nonchalance the seeds of a most influential
life.
The powers and the ground of friendship is a mystery; but, looking
back, I can discern that, in part, we loved the thing he was, for
some shadow of what he was to be. For with all his beauty, power,
breeding, urbanity and mirth, there was in those days something
soulless in our friend. He would astonish us by sallies, witty,
innocent and inhumane; and by a misapplied Johnsonian pleasantry,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: "But if she was cleverer, she wouldn't be the genius she is.
She would just be any other woman."
"Perhaps she would," said Sir Richmond darkly and
desperately. "Perhaps she would. Perhaps it would be better
if she was."
Dr. Martineau raised his eyebrows in a furtive aside.
"But here you see that it is that in my case, the fundamental
incompatibility between one's affections and one's wider
conception of duty and work comes in. We cannot change social
institutions in a year or a lifetime. We can never change
them to suit an individual case. That would be like
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: SECOND SOLDAT. Je ne sais pas.
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Comme la princesse est pale! Jamais je ne l'ai
vue si pale. Elle ressemble au reflet d'une rose blanche dans un
miroir d'argent
LE PAGE D'HERODIAS. Il ne faut pas la regarder. Vous la regardez
trop!
PREMIER SOLDAT. Herodias a verse e boire au tetrarque.
LE CAPPADOCIEN. C'est la reine Herodias, celle-le qui porte la
mitre noire semee de perles et qui a les cheveux poudrees de bleu?
PREMIER SOLDAT. Oui, c'est Herodias. C'est la femme du tetrarque.
SECOND SOLDAT. Le tetrarque aime beaucoup le vin. Il possede des
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