| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: 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
en les touchant.
LE SECOND NAZAREEN. Non, c'etaient deux aveugles qu'il a gueris e
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Here are the articles of contracted peace
Between our sovereign and the French king Charles,
For eighteen months concluded by consent.
GLOSTER.
[Reads] 'Imprimis, It is agreed between the French king
Charles and William de la Pole, Marquess of Suffolk, ambassador
for Henry King of England, that the said Henry shall espouse the
Lady Margaret, daughter unto Reignier King of Naples, Sicilia,
and Jerusalem, and crown her Queen of England ere the thirtieth
of May next ensuing. Item, that the duchy of Anjou and the
county of Maine shall be released and delivered to the king her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: THEAETETUS: Certainly.
SOCRATES: But he who saw, and has knowledge of that which he saw,
remembers, when he closes his eyes, that which he no longer sees.
THEAETETUS: True.
SOCRATES: And seeing is knowing, and therefore not-seeing is not-knowing?
THEAETETUS: Very true.
SOCRATES: Then the inference is, that a man may have attained the
knowledge of something, which he may remember and yet not know, because he
does not see; and this has been affirmed by us to be a monstrous
supposition.
THEAETETUS: Most true.
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