| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: think so now. Wealth has given me enormous power. It gave me at the
very outset of my life freedom, and freedom is everything. You have
never been poor, and never known what ambition is. You cannot
understand what a wonderful chance the Baron gave me. Such a chance
as few men get.
LORD GORING. Fortunately for them, if one is to judge by results.
But tell me definitely, how did the Baron finally persuade you to -
well, to do what you did?
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. When I was going away he said to me that if I
ever could give him any private information of real value he would
make me a very rich man. I was dazed at the prospect he held out to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: young lady to save your life. Why, therefore should I now take it?"
Of course, I didn't say "young lady" as there is no Caspakian
equivalent for that term; but I have to allow myself considerable
latitude in the translation of Caspakian conversations. To speak
always of a beautiful young girl as a "she" may be literal; but
it seems far from gallant.
The Kro-lu concentrated his steady, level gaze upon me for at
least a full minute. Then he spoke again.
"Who are you, man of strange skins?" he asked. "Your she is
Galu; but you are neither Galu nor Krolu nor Band-lu, nor any
other sort of man which I have seen before. Tell me from
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: though it may be, there is some spirit hidden of which the painted
forms and shapes are but modes of manifestation, and it is with
this spirit that I desire to become in harmony. I have grown tired
of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in
Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am
looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it
somewhere.
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are
sentences of death; and three times have I been tried. The first
time I left the box to be arrested, the second time to be led back
to the house of detention, the third time to pass into a prison for
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