| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: dans la main.
SALOME. Mais il est terrible, il est terrible.
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Ne restez pas ici, princesse, je vous en prie.
SALOME. Ce sont les yeux surtout qui sont terribles. On dirait des
trous noirs laisses par des flambeaux sur une tapisserie de Tyr. On
dirait des cavernes noires ou demeurent des dragons, des cavernes
noires d'Egypte ou les dragons trouvent leur asile. On dirait des
lacs noirs troubles par des lunes fantastiques . . . Pensez-vous
qu'il parlera encore?
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Ne restez pas ici, princesse! Je vous prie de ne
pas rester ici.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: Al. "a right good honest salvo of barks."
[20] Lit. "Let them not hark back to join the huntsman, and desert the
trail."
Along with this build and method of working, hounds should possess
four points. They should have pluck, sound feet, keen noses, and sleek
coats. The spirited, plucky hound will prove his mettle by refusing to
leave the chase, however stifling the weather; a good nose is shown by
his capacity for scenting the hare on barren and dry ground exposed to
the sun, and that when the orb is at the zenith;[21] soundness of foot
in the fact that the dog may course over mountains during the same
season, and yet his feet will not be torn to pieces; and a good coat
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: waiting about for nothing. If your Nana neither sings nor acts
you'll find you've made a blunder, that's all. It's what I'm afraid
of, if the truth be told."
"A blunder! A blunder!" shouted the manager, and his face grew
purple. "Must a woman know how to act and sing? Oh, my chicken,
you're too STOOPID. Nana has other good points, by heaven!--
something which is as good as all the other things put together.
I've smelled it out; it's deuced pronounced with her, or I've got
the scent of an idiot. You'll see, you'll see! She's only got to
come on, and all the house will be gaping at her."
He had held up his big hands which were trembling under the
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