| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: nearly ripe for the conception of the day--the inmates of my
house were locked in the most rigorous hours of slumber; and I
determined, flushed as I was with hope and triumph, to venture in
my new shape as far as to my bedroom. I crossed the yard, wherein
the constellations looked down upon me, I could have thought, with
wonder, the first creature of that sort that their unsleeping
vigilance had yet disclosed to them; I stole through the
corridors, a stranger in my own house; and coming to my room, I
saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde.
I must here speak by theory alone, saying not that which I
know, but that which I suppose to be most probable. The evil side
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: pigeons, et des topazes vertes comme les yeux des chats. J'ai des
opales qui brulent toujours avec une flamme qui est tres froide, des
opales qui attristent les esprits et ont peur des tenebres. J'ai
des onyx semblables aux prunelles d'une morte. J'ai des selenites
qui changent quand la lune change et deviennent pales quand elles
voient le soleil. J'ai des saphirs grands comme des oeufs et bleus
comme des fleurs bleues. La mer erre dedans, et la lune ne vient
jamais troubler le bleu de ses flots. J'ai des chrysolithes et des
beryls, j'ai des chrysoprases et des rubis, j'ai des sardonyx et des
hyacinthes, et des calcedoines et je vous les donnerai tous, mais
tous, et j'ajouterai d'autres choses. Le roi des Indes vient
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Long Odds by H. Rider Haggard: seen. I shot her again through the chest, and she fell over on to her
side quite dead.
"That was the first and last time that I ever killed a brace of lions
right and left, and, what is more, I never heard of anybody else doing
it. Naturally I was considerably pleased with myself, and having again
loaded up, I went on to look for the black-maned beauty who had killed
Kaptein. Slowly, and with the greatest care, I proceeded up the kloof,
searching every bush and tuft of grass as I went. It was wonderfully
exciting, work, for I never was sure from one moment to another but that
he would be on me. I took comfort, however, from the reflection that a
lion rarely attacks a man--rarely, I say; sometimes he does, as you will
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