| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: LE CAPPADOCIEN. J'aime beaucoup l'or.
SECOND SOLDAT. Et le troisieme qui est un vin sicilien. Ce vin-le
est rouge comme le sang.
LE NUBIEN. Les dieux de mon pays aiment beaucoup le sang. Deux
fois par an nous leur sacrifions des jeunes hommes et des vierges:
cinquante jeunes hommes et cent vierges. Mais il semble que nous ne
leur donnons jamais assez, car ils sont tres durs envers nous.
LE CAPPADOCIEN. Dans mon pays il n'y a pas de dieux e present, les
Romains les ont chasses. Il y en a qui disent qu'ils se sont
refugies dans les montagnes, mais je ne le crois pas. Moi, j'ai
passe trois nuits sur les montagnes les cherchant partout. Je ne
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: himself with an effort and added supplicatingly: "Oh, sir, you
ayn't agoing to see it go to H'Australia, w'ere they send
convic's?" He unpinned and flung aside the sheets as though to
let Phaedra plead for herself.
MacMaster sat down again and looked sadly at the doomed
masterpiece. The notion of James having carried it across London
that night rather appealed to his fancy. There was certainly a
flavor about such a highhanded proceeding. "However did you get
it here?" he queried.
"I got a four-wheeler and come over direct, sir. Good job I
'appened to 'ave the chaynge about me."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: "After some minutes of immobility - she told me - she arose from
her stone and walked slowly on the track of that apparition.
Allegre was nowhere to be seen by that time. Under the gateway of
the extremely ugly tenement house, which hides the Pavilion and the
garden from the street, the wife of the porter was waiting with her
arms akimbo. At once she cried out to Rita: 'You were caught by
our gentleman.'
"As a matter of fact, that old woman, being a friend of Rita's
aunt, allowed the girl to come into the garden whenever Allegre was
away. But Allegre's goings and comings were sudden and
unannounced; and that morning, Rita, crossing the narrow, thronged
The Arrow of Gold |
