| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: one of the largest and fairest of the houses, whose garden glowed
softly
with radiant flowers. The Guide laid his hand upon the doctor's
shoulder.
"This is for you," he said. "Go in; there is no more pain here,
no more death, nor sorrow, nor tears; for your old enemies are
all conquered. But all the good that you have done for others,
all the help that you have given, all the comfort that you have
brought,
all the strength and love that you have bestowed upon the
suffering,
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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: SALOME. Je ne danserai pas, tetrarque.
HERODIAS [riant] Voile comme elle vous obeit!
HERODE. Qu'est-ce que cela me fait qu'elle danse ou non? Cela ne
me fait rien. Je suis heureux ce soir. Je suis tres heureux.
Jamais je n'ai ete si heureux.
LE PREMIER SOLDAT. Il a l'air sombre, le tetrarque. N'est-ce pas
qu'il a l'air sombre?
LE SECOND SOLDAT. Il a l'air sombre.
HERODE. Pourquoi ne serais-je pas heureux? Cesar, qui est le
maitre du monde, qui est le maitre de tout, m'aime beaucoup. Il
vient de m'envoyer des cadeaux de grande valeur. Aussi il m'a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: to quench the flow of blood the top came out with it. I must have
touched the spring without knowing it, for the top began to spin.
I stood still and watched it, then I ran after it. It spun around
the room and finally came back to the body. So did I. The pastor
was quite still and dead by that time."
"You have heard everything, Dr. Orszay?" asked the detective, rising
from his chair.
"Yes, I have heard everything," answered the venerable head of the
asylum. He was utterly crushed by the realisation that all this
tragedy and horror had gone out from his house.
Varna rose also. He understood perfectly that now Gyuri's power
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