| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: dit le Seigneur Dieu. Voici le jour dont j'avais parle.
HERODIAS. Faites-le taire. Je ne veux pas entendre sa voix. Cet
homme vomit toujours des injures contre moi.
HERODE. Il n'a rien dit contre vous. Aussi, c'est un tres grand
prophete.
HERODIAS. Je ne crois pas aux prophetes. Est-ce qu'un homme peut
dire ce qui doit arriver? Personne ne le sait. Aussi, il m'insulte
toujours. Mais je pense que vous avez peur de lui . . . Enfin, je
sais bien que vous avez peur de lui.
HERODE. Je n'ai pas peur de lui. Je n'ai peur de personne.
HERODIAS. Si, vous avez peur de lui. Si vous n'aviez pas peur de
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: hand.
"Ari-tsemaia! Hamba! Loop! Go!" whispered Peter Halket; using a word
from each African language he knew. But the black man still stood
motionless, looking at him as one paralysed.
"Hamba! Sucka! Go!" he whispered, motioning his hand.
In an instant a gleam of intelligence shot across the face; then a wild
transport. Without a word, without a sound, as the tiger leaps when the
wild dogs are on it, with one long, smooth spring, as though unwounded and
unhurt, he turned and disappeared into the grass. It closed behind him;
but as he went the twigs and leaves cracked under his tread.
The Captain threw back the door of his tent. "Who is there?" he cried.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: little perched-up house of ours, discussing my difficulties with
Isabel and I think on the whole complicating them further in the
effort to simplify them to manageable and stateable elements.
Let me, nevertheless, attempt a rough preliminary analysis of this
confused process. A main strand is quite easily traceable. This
main strand is the story of my obvious life, my life as it must have
looked to most of my acquaintances. It presents you with a young
couple, bright, hopeful, and energetic, starting out under Altiora's
auspices to make a career. You figure us well dressed and active,
running about in motor-cars, visiting in great people's houses,
dining amidst brilliant companies, going to the theatre, meeting in
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