| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: HERODE. De qui donc a-t-il parle?
LE PREMIER NAZAREEN. Du Messie qui est venu.
UN JUIF. Le Messie n'est pas venu.
LE PREMIER NAZAREEN. Il est venu, et il fait des miracles partout.
HERODIAS. Oh! Oh! les miracles. Je ne crois pas aux miracles.
J'en ai vu trop. [Au page.] Mon eventail.
LE PREMIER NAZAREEN. Cet homme fait de veritables miracles. Ainsi,
e l'occasion d'un mariage qui a eu lieu dans une petite ville de
Galilee, une ville assez importante, il a change de l'eau en vin.
Des personnes qui etaient le me l'ont dit. Aussi il a gueri deux
lepreux qui etaient assis devant la porte de Capharnaum, seulement
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: indorsing the notes, "to see another comedian, who will play you a
charming scene gratis."
"Who is it?" said Gazonal.
"A usurer. As we go along I'll tell you the debut of friend
Ravenouillet in Paris."
Passing in front of the porter's lodge, Gazonal saw Mademoiselle
Lucienne Ravenouillet holding in her hand a music score (she was a
pupil of the Conservatoire), her father reading a newspaper, and
Madame Ravenouillet with a package of letters to be carried up to the
lodgers.
"Thanks, Monsieur Bixiou!" said the girl.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dust by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius: Rose, who had surrendered long since, let the promises go to
naught without much protest. Martin was so quietly domineering,
so stubbornly persistent--and always so plausible--oh, so
plausible! --that there was no resisting him. Only when it came
to the fireplace did she make a last stand. She felt that it
would be such a friendly spirit in the house. She pictured Martin
and herself sitting beside it in the winter evenings.
"A house without one is like a place without flowers," she
explained to him.
"It's a mighty dirty business," he answered tersely. "You would
have to track the coal through the rest of the house and you'd
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