| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Euthydemus by Plato: silent?
Not when I pass a smithy; for then the iron bars make a tremendous noise
and outcry if they are touched: so that here your wisdom is strangely
mistaken; please, however, to tell me how you can be silent when speaking
(I thought that Ctesippus was put upon his mettle because Cleinias was
present).
When you are silent, said Euthydemus, is there not a silence of all things?
Yes, he said.
But if speaking things are included in all things, then the speaking are
silent.
What, said Ctesippus; then all things are not silent?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare: Your name from hence immortal life shall have,
Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:
The earth can yield me but a common grave,
When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie.
Your monument shall be my gentle verse,
Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read;
And tongues to be, your being shall rehearse,
When all the breathers of this world are dead;
You still shall live,--such virtue hath my pen,--
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
LXXXII
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: autour de ton cou. Je n'aime pas tes cheveux . . . C'est de ta
bouche que je suis amoureuse, Iokanaan. Ta bouche est comme une
bande d'ecarlate sur une tour d'ivoire. Elle est comme une pomme de
grenade coupee par un couteau d'ivoire. Les fleurs de grenade qui
fleurissent dans les jardins de Tyr et sont plus rouges que les
roses, ne sont pas aussi rouges. Les cris rouges des trompettes qui
annoncent l'arrivee des rois, et font peur e l'ennemi ne sont pas
aussi rouges. Ta bouche est plus rouge que les pieds de ceux qui
foulent le vin dans les pressoirs. Elle est plus rouge que les
pieds des colombes qui demeurent dans les temples et sont nourries
par les pretres. Elle est plus rouge que les pieds de celui qui
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