| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: seat, called Mars to her. Never yet had a more glowing scene of
seduction been ventured on. Nana, her arms round Prulliere's neck,
was drawing him toward her when Fontan, with comically furious
mimicry and an exaggerated imitation of the face of an outraged
husband who surprises his wife in FLAGRANTE DELICTO, appeared at the
back of the grotto. He was holding the famous net with iron meshes.
For an instant he poised and swung it, as a fisherman does when he
is going to make a cast, and by an ingenious twist Venus and Mars
were caught in the snare; the net wrapped itself round them and held
them motionless in the attitude of happy lovers.
A murmur of applause swelled and swelled like a growing sigh. There
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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: ce pas?
SECOND SOLDAT. Nous ne comprenons jamais ce qu'il dit, princesse.
SALOME. Oui, il dit des choses monstrueuses d'elle.
UN ESCLAVE. Princesse, le tetrarque vous prie de retourner au
festin.
SALOME. Je n'y retournerai pas.
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Pardon, princesse, mais si vous n'y retourniez pas
il pourrait arriver un malheur.
SALOME. Est-ce un vieillard, le prophete?
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Princesse, il vaudrait mieux retourner.
Permettez-moi de vous reconduire.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: some persons thought she could claim a certificate of innocence from
the cessation of the doctor's cares and attentions in the last two
years of his life, during which time he showed her something more than
coldness.
Old Rouget had killed too many people not to know when his own end was
nigh; and his notary, finding him on his death-bed, draped as it were,
in the mantle of encyclopaedic philosophy, pressed him to make a
provision in favor of the young girl, then seventeen years old.
"So I do," he said, cynically; "my death sets her at liberty."
This speech paints the nature of the old man. Covering his evil doings
with witty sayings, he obtained indulgence for them, in a land where
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