| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: with its window looking down into the great hall, the endless
noise of debate rose from the Petrograd Soviet that met
below.
Litvinov invited me to have dinner with the Petrograd
Commissars, which I was very glad to do, partly because I
was hungry and partly because I thought it would be better
to meet Zinoviev thus than in any other manner,
remembering how sourly he had looked upon me earlier
in the revolution. Zinoviev is a Jew, with a lot of hair, a
round smooth face, and a very abrupt manner. He was
against the November Revolution, but when it had been
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: To slumber here, as in the vales of Heaven?
Or in this abject posture have ye sworn
To adore the Conqueror, who now beholds
Cherub and Seraph rolling in the flood
With scattered arms and ensigns, till anon
His swift pursuers from Heaven-gates discern
Th' advantage, and, descending, tread us down
Thus drooping, or with linked thunderbolts
Transfix us to the bottom of this gulf?
Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen!"
They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: "So be it, and now get thee gone," said the knight; "and let me
hear no more of beating out brains with wooden clogs. An ye fight
your battles, let there not be murder in them. This is twice that
the like hath happed; gin I hear more of such doings--" He did
utter his threat, but stopped short, and fixed his one eye
sternly upon the head squire. "Now shake hands, and be ye
friends," said he, abruptly.
Blunt made a motion to obey, but Myles put his hand behind him.
"Nay, I shake not hands with any one who struck me while I was
down."
"So be it," said the knight, grimly. "Now thou mayst go, Blunt.
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