| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair: fruits that grow and all creatures that run and fly and swim, and
a modern East Side tenement-room, with an oil stove and no
windows and no water-closet, and the price of cabbage seven cents
a pound!
Sheep
There are more than a hundred thousand Protestant churches in
America. They own more than a billion dollars' worth of property,
and in the West and South they dominate the intellectual life of
the country. I do not wish to be unfair in what I say of them.
They are far more democratic than the Catholic Church; they fight
valiantly against the liquor traffic and those forms of graft
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: A second time, I kill my Husband dead,
When second Husband kisses me in Bed
King. I do beleeue you. Think what now you speak:
But what we do determine, oft we breake:
Purpose is but the slaue to Memorie,
Of violent Birth, but poore validitie:
Which now like Fruite vnripe stickes on the Tree,
But fall vnshaken, when they mellow bee.
Most necessary 'tis, that we forget
To pay our selues, what to our selues is debt:
What to our selues in passion we propose,
Hamlet |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: garnis d'escarboucles et de jade qui viennent de la ville
d'Euphrate. . . Enfin, que veux-tu, Salome? Dis-moi ce que tu
desires et je te le donnerai. Je te donnerai tout ce que tu
demanderas, sauf une chose. Je te donnerai tout ce que je possede,
sauf une vie. Je te donnerai le manteau du grand pretre. Je te
donnerai le voile du sanctuaire.
LES JUIFS. Oh! Oh!
SALOME. Donne-moi la tete d'Iokanaan.
HERODE [s'afffaissant sur son siege] Qu'on lui donne ce qu'elle
demande! C'est bien la fille de sa mere! [Le premier soldat
s'approche. Herodias prend de la main du tetrarque la bague de la
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