| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: venez manger du fruit avec moi. J'aime beaucoup voir dans un fruit
la morsure de tes petites dents. Mordez un tout petit morceau de ce
fruit, et ensuite je mangerai ce qui reste.
SALOME. Je n'ai pas faim, tetrarque.
HERODE [e Herodias] Voile comme vous l'avez elevee, votre fille.
HERODIAS. Ma fille et moi, nous descendons d'une race royale.
Quant e toi, ton grand-pere gardait des chameaux! Aussi, c'etait un
voleur!
HERODE. Tu mens!
HERODIAS. Tu sais bien que c'est la verite.
HERODE. Salome, viens t'asseoir pres de moi. Je te donnerai le
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift: Gospel, the Bank and East India stock may fall at least one per
cent. And since that is fifty times more than ever the wisdom of
our age thought fit to venture for the preservation of
Christianity, there is no reason we should be at so great a loss
merely for the sake of destroying it.
CHAPTER XV - HINTS TOWARDS AN ESSAY ON CONVERSATION.
I HAVE observed few obvious subjects to have been so seldom, or at
least so slightly, handled as this; and, indeed, I know few so
difficult to be treated as it ought, nor yet upon which there
seemeth so much to be said.
Most things pursued by men for the happiness of public or private
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson: as the phrase goes - a man, besides, who had taken his degree in
life and knew a thing or two about the age we live in. We were
deep in talk, whirling between Peterborough and London; among other
things, he began to describe some piece of legal injustice he had
recently encountered, and I observed in my innocence that things
were not so in Scotland. "I beg your pardon," said he, "this is a
matter of law." He had never heard of the Scots law; nor did he
choose to be informed. The law was the same for the whole country,
he told me roundly; every child knew that. At last, to settle
matters, I explained to him that I was a member of a Scottish legal
body, and had stood the brunt of an examination in the very law in
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