| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: faith, I thought I might say some little thing for myself. She
thinks she hath my head under her girdle now, but she is
deceived. Where is Doctor Alasco?"
"In his laboratory," answered Foster. "It is the hour he is
spoken not withal. We must wait till noon is past, or spoil his
important--what said I? important!--I would say interrupt his
divine studies."
"Ay, he studies the devil's divinity," said Varney; "but when I
want him, one hour must suffice as well as another. Lead the way
to his pandemonium."
So spoke Varney, and with hasty and perturbed steps followed
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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: ciel tomberont sur la terre comme les figues vertes tombent d'un
figuier, et les rois de la terre auront peur.
HERODIAS. Ah! Ah! Je voudrais bien voir ce jour dont il parle, ou
la lune deviendra comme du sang et ou les etoiles tomberont sur la
terre comme des figues vertes. Ce prophete parle comme un homme
ivre . . . Mais je ne peux pas souffrir le son de sa voix. Je
deteste sa voix. Ordonnez qu'il se taise.
HERODE. Mais non. Je ne comprends pas ce qu'il a dit, mais cela
peut etre un presage.
HERODIAS. Je ne crois pas aux presages. Il parle comme un homme
ivre.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: fearlessness the most difficult questions, thanks to her daily and
nightly reading, pursued with an intrepidity worthy of the highest
praise. D'Arthez, amazed, and incapable of suspecting that Diane
d'Uxelles merely repeated at night that which she read in the morning
(as some writers do), regarded her as a most superior woman. These
conversations, however, led away from Diane's object, and she tried to
get back to the region of confidences from which d'Arthez had
prudently retired after her coquettish rebuff; but it was not as easy
as she expected to bring back a man of his nature who had once been
startled away.
However, after a month of literary campaigning and the finest platonic
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