| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?
II
A Thought
It is very nice to think
The world is full of meat and drink,
With little children saying grace
In every Christian kind of place.
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A Child's Garden of Verses |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: everything. I dismissed from my mind the past perils of the journey,
the future danger of our return. That which another had done I
supposed we might also do, and nothing that was not superhuman
appeared impossible to me.
"Forward! forward!" I cried.
I was already darting down the gloomy tunnel when the Professor
stopped me; he, the man of impulse, counselled patience and coolness.
"Let us first return to Hans," he said, "and bring the raft to this
spot."
I obeyed, not without dissatisfaction, and passed out rapidly among
the rocks on the shore.
Journey to the Center of the Earth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: [Entree d'Herode, d'Herodias et de toute la cour.]
HERODE. Ou est Salome? Ou est la princesse? Pourquoi n'est-elle
pas retournee au festin comme je le lui avais commande? ah! la
voile!
HERODIAS. Il ne faut pas la regarder. Vous la regardez toujours!
HERODE. La lune a l'air tres etrange ce soir. N'est-ce pas que la
lune a l'air tres etrange? On dirait une femme hysterique, une
femme hysterique qui va cherchant des amants partout. Elle est nue
aussi. Elle est toute nue. Les nuages cherchent e la vetir, mais
elle ne veut pas. Elle chancelle e travers les nuages comme une
femme ivre . . . Je suis sur qu'elle cherche des amants . . . N'est-
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