| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: Jaire?
LE PREMIER NAZAREEN. La fille de Jaire etait morte. Il l'a
ressuscitee.
HERODE. Il ressuscite les morts?
LE PREMIER NAZAREEN. Oui, Seigneur. Il ressuscite les morts.
HERODE. Je ne veux pas qu'il fasse cela. Je lui defends de faire
cela. Je ne permets pas qu'on ressuscite les morts. Il faut
chercher cet homme et lui dire que je ne lui permets pas de
ressusciter les morts. Ou est-il e present, cet homme?
LE SECOND NAZAREEN. Il est partout, Seigneur, mais il est tres
difficile de le trouver.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Dorothy looked at the King when she heard this song and noticed
that he seemed disturbed and ill at ease.
"I don't like that song," he said to the Warblers. "Give us something
jolly and rollicking."
So they sang to a joyous, tinkling melody as follows:
"Bunnies gay
Delight to play
In their fairy town secure;
Ev'ry frisker
Flirts his whisker
At a pink-eyed girl demure.
The Emerald City of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: on the characters, and the movable table on which the form of type was
placed in readiness for the sheet of paper, being made of marble,
literally deserved its name of "impression-stone." Modern machinery
has swept all this old-world mechanism into oblivion; the wooden press
which, with all its imperfections, turned out such beautiful work for
the Elzevirs, Plantin, Aldus, and Didot is so completely forgotten,
that something must be said as to the obsolete gear on which Jerome-
Nicolas Sechard set an almost superstitious affection, for it plays a
part in this chronicle of great small things.
Sechard had been in his time a journeyman pressman, a "bear" in
compositors' slang. The continued pacing to and fro of the pressman
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