| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: could.
FRANK. Eh?
VIVIE. I think brother and sister would be a very suitable
relation for us.
FRANK. You really mean that?
VIVIE. Yes. It's the only relation I care for, even if we could
afford any other. I mean that.
FRANK [raising his eyebrows like one on whom a new light has
dawned, and rising with quite an effusion of chivalrous
sentiment] My dear Viv: why didnt you say so before? I am ever
so sorry for persecuting you. I understand, of course.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: for ever unharmed. If, however, she drops her wings and falls to the
earth, then she takes the form of man, and the soul which has seen most of
the truth passes into a philosopher or lover; that which has seen truth in
the second degree, into a king or warrior; the third, into a householder or
money-maker; the fourth, into a gymnast; the fifth, into a prophet or
mystic; the sixth, into a poet or imitator; the seventh, into a husbandman
or craftsman; the eighth, into a sophist or demagogue; the ninth, into a
tyrant. All these are states of probation, wherein he who lives
righteously is improved, and he who lives unrighteously deteriorates.
After death comes the judgment; the bad depart to houses of correction
under the earth, the good to places of joy in heaven. When a thousand
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: lamp of Venetian crystal, She saw D'Artagnan, who stood
expecting her.
"Is it you?" she said.
"Yes, madame."
"Are you ready?"
"I am."
"And his eminence, the cardinal?"
"Has got off without any accident. He is awaiting your
majesty at Cours la Reine."
"But in what carriage do we start?"
"I have provided for everything; a carriage below is waiting
Twenty Years After |
