| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: would not be a little flattered if one made love to her. It is
that which makes women so irresistibly adorable.
MRS. ALLONBY. You think there is no woman in the world who would
object to being kissed?
LORD ILLINGWORTH. Very few.
MRS. ALLONBY. Miss Worsley would not let you kiss her.
LORD ILLINGWORTH. Are you sure?
MRS. ALLONBY. Quite.
LORD ILLINGWORTH. What do you think she'd do if I kissed her?
MRS. ALLONBY. Either marry you, or strike you across the face with
her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: note to Theophr. "Ch." vi. p. 197, note 16.
[18] Lit. "if they mount."
[19] Like that of Pheidippides in the play; see Aristoph. "Clouds," 23
foll. And for the price of horses, ranging from 3 minas (= L12
circa) for a common horse, or 12 minas (say L50) for a good saddle
or race-horse, up to the extravagant sum of 13 talents (say 3000
guineas) given for "Bucephalus," see Boeckh, "P. E. A." (Eng. tr.)
p. 74. Cf. Isaeus, 55. 22; 88. 17; Lys. "de Maled." 133. 10; Aul.
Gell. "Noct. Att." v. 2.
To come to the existing body of knights,[20] it would tend,[21] I
think, to better rearing and more careful treatment of their horses if
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: "If I wish."
"Then we will go together."
She got up again on her elbow. "Instead of making plans for other
people, I would do a very necessary thing."
"Pray, tell me."
"Well, there's no reason why I should, but I will. I would try to
convert my women's organs into men's organs. It is a man's country."
"Speak more plainly."
"Oh, it's plain enough. If you attempt to pass through Ifdawn
without a sorb, you are simply committing suicide. And that magn too
is worse than useless."
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