| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: am, you, my dear brother Shandy, who have sucked the same breasts with me,-
-and with whom I have been brought up from my cradle,--and from whose
knowledge, from the first hours of our boyish pastimes, down to this, I
have concealed no one action of my life, and scarce a thought in it--Such
as I am, brother, you must by this time know me, with all my vices, and
with all my weaknesses too, whether of my age, my temper, my passions, or
my understanding.
Tell me then, my dear brother Shandy, upon which of them it is, that when I
condemned the peace of Utrecht, and grieved the war was not carried on with
vigour a little longer, you should think your brother did it upon unworthy
views; or that in wishing for war, he should be bad enough to wish more of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: is where we are not," said Monsignor.
"I am sorry"
"No, you're not. No one person in the world is necessary to you
or to me."
"Well"
"Good-by."
THE EGOTIST DOWN
Amory's two years at St. Regis', though in turn painful and
triumphant, had as little real significance in his own life as
the American "prep" school, crushed as it is under the heel of
the universities, has to American life in general. We have no
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: pas qu'elle danse pendant que vous la regardez comme cela. Enfin,
je ne veux pas qu'elle danse.
HERODE. Ne te leve pas, mon epouse, ma reine, c'est inutile. Je ne
rentrerai pas avant qu'elle n'ait danse. Dansez, Salome, dansez
pour moi.
HERODIAS. Ne dansez pas, ma fille.
SALOME. Je suis prete, tetrarque.
[Salome danse la danse des sept voiles.]
HERODE. Ah! c'est magnifique, c'est magnifique! Vous voyez qu'elle
a danse pour moi, votre fille. Approchez, Salome! Approchez, afin
que je puisse vous donner votre salaire. Ah! je paie bien les
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