| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: es maudite, Salome, tu es maudite. [Il descend dans la citerne.]
SALOME. Je baiserai ta bouche, Iokanaan, je baiserai ta bouche.
LE PREMIER SOLDAT. Il faut faire transporter le cadavre ailleurs.
Le tetrarque n'aime pas regarder les cadavres, sauf les cadavres de
ceux qu'il a tues lui-meme.
LE PAGE D'HERODIAS. Il etait mon frere, et plus proche qu'un frere.
Je lui ai donne une petite boite qui contenait des parfums, et une
bague d'agate qu'il portait toujours e la main. Le soir nous nous
promenions au bord de la riviere et parmi les amandiers et il me
racontait des choses de son pays. Il parlait toujours tres bas. Le
son de sa voix ressemblait au son de la flute d'un joueur de flute.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: meet a relative there, but the person, we have come to know, was
a certain very decent young man who had become acquainted with
her through a correspondence bureau. He had thought well of her
and warned her not to come to that city, but when she did so he
met her and took her at once to his own home where the womenfolk
looked after her until she was found a place elsewhere. The
deliberate attempt to throw herself upon his protection was thus
frustrated by his relatives. Many other reports of the
misrepresentations of Inez have been given us. She has
discovered that borrowing money on the strength of invented
statements is sometimes possible, particularly for her with her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: from whatever source derived, became civilised, rational, and moral.
And I am sorry to say that there is tacked on by many to the first
theory, another which does not follow from it, and which has really
nothing to do with it, and it is this: That man, with all his
wonderful and mysterious aspirations, always unfulfilled yet always
precious, at once his torment and his joy, his very hope of
everlasting life; that man, I say, developed himself, unassisted,
out of a state of primaeval brutishness, simply by calculations of
pleasure and pain, by observing what actions would pay in the long
run and what would not; and so learnt to conquer his selfishness by
a more refined and extended selfishness, and exchanged his brutality
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