| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: Charley was looking at her foot. I can't say whether or not the two light
taps that the foot now gave upon the floor of the landing brought out for
me a certain impatience which I might otherwise have missed in those last
words of hers. From Charley it brought out, I feel quite sure, the speech
which (in some form) she had been expecting from him as her confederate
in this unwelcome and inopportune interview with me, and which his less
highly schooled perceptions had not suggested to him until prompted by
her.
"I should have been very glad to include you in our launch party if I had
known you were coming here to-day," lied little Charley.
"Thank you so much!" I murmured; and I fancy that after this Hortense
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: PHLEBAS the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
V. WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
The Waste Land |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: gazon et autour de l'etang. Il n'y a pas dans le monde d'oiseaux si
merveilleux. Il n'y a aucun roi du monde qui possede des oiseaux
aussi merveilleux. Je suis sur que meme Cesar ne possede pas
d'oiseaux aussi beaux. Eh bien! je vous donnerai cinquante de mes
paons. Ils vous suivront partout, et au milieu d'eux vous serez
comme la lune dans un grand nuage blanc . . . Je vous les donnerai
tous. Je n'en ai que cent, et il n'y a aucun roi du monde qui
possede des paons comme les miens, mais je vous les donnerai tous.
Seulement, il faut me delier de ma parole et ne pas me demander ce
que vous m'avez demande. [Il vide la coupe de vin.]
SALOME. Donnez-moi la tete d'Iokanaan.
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