| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: possible. On ne sait pas, mais il est possible que Dieu soit pour
lui et avec lui. Aussi peut-etre que s'il mourrait, il m'arriverait
un malheur. Enfin, il a dit que le jour ou il mourrait il
arriverait un malheur e quelqu'un. Ce ne peut etre qu'e moi.
Souvenez-vous, j'ai glisse dans le sang quand je suis entre ici.
Aussi j'ai entendu un battement d'ailes dans l'air, un battement
d'ailes gigantesques. Ce sont de tres mauvais presages. Et il y en
avait d'autres. Je suis sur qu'il y en avait d'autres, quoique je
ne les aie pas vus. Eh bien! Salome, vous ne voulez pas qu'un
malheur m'arrive? Vous ne voulez pas cela. Enfin, ecoutez-moi.
SALOME. Donnez-moi la tete d'Iokanaan.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we
wanted for ourselves."
"Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there.
You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to
this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in
his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining
minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with
the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he
walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and
in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the
bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: Therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients: Of taxing
our absentees at five shillings a pound: Of using neither
cloaths, nor houshold furniture, except what is of our own growth
and manufacture: Of utterly rejecting the materials and
instruments that promote foreign luxury: Of curing the
expensiveness of pride, vanity, idleness, and gaming in our
women: Of introducing a vein of parsimony, prudence and
temperance: Of learning to love our country, wherein we differ
even from Laplanders, and the inhabitants of Topinamboo: Of
quitting our animosities and factions, nor acting any longer like
the Jews, who were murdering one another at the very moment their
A Modest Proposal |
