| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity
lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail.
Progress is the realisation of Utopias.
Now, I have said that the community by means of organisation of
machinery will supply the useful things, and that the beautiful
things will be made by the individual. This is not merely
necessary, but it is the only possible way by which we can get
either the one or the other. An individual who has to make things
for the use of others, and with reference to their wants and their
wishes, does not work with interest, and consequently cannot put
into his work what is best in him. Upon the other hand, whenever a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie: may be quite wrong, but it still seems to me that my mother's
death might be accounted for by natural means."
"How do you make that out, Mr. Cavendish?"
"My mother, at the time of her death, and for some time before
it, was taking a tonic containing strychnine."
"Ah!" said the Coroner.
The jury looked up, interested.
"I believe," continued Lawrence, "that there have been cases
where the cumulative effect of a drug, administered for some
time, has ended by causing death. Also, is it not possible that
she may have taken an overdose of her medicine by accident?"
The Mysterious Affair at Styles |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: Aux ambassadeurs de Cesar il faut faire tout honneur.
HERODIAS. Ce n'est pas e cause d'eux que vous restez.
HERODE. Oui, l'air est delicieux. Viens, Herodias, nos hotes nous
attendent. Ah! j'ai glisse! j'ai glisse dans le sang! C'est d'un
mauvais presage. C'est d'un tres mauvais presage. Pourquoi y a-t-
il du sang ici? . . . Et ce cadavre? Que fait ici ce cadavre?
Pensez-vous que je sois comme le roi d'Egypte qui ne donne jamais un
festin sans montrer un cadavre e ses hotes? Enfin, qui est-ce? Je
ne veux pas le regarder.
PREMIER SOLDAT. C'est notre capitaine, Seigneur. C'est le jeune
Syrien que vous avez fait capitaine il y a trois jours seulement.
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