| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: sinking in little gasps as the breath was driven out of it
by this unhappiness.
He stared all round him, but he could see no more than the
mocking Bandar-log scudding through the trees, and Mor, his tail
spread in full splendour, dancing on the slopes below.
"The smells have changed," screamed Mor. "Good hunting,
Little Brother! Where is thy answer?"
"Little Brother, good hunting!" whistled Chil the Kite and his
mate, swooping down together. The two baffed under Mowgli's nose
so close that a pinch of downy white feathers brushed away.
A light spring rain--elephant-rain they call it--drove across
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: Madame de l'Estorade paid little attention to this programme, for a
flash of light had illumined her mind. As soon as she was alone, she
took Marie-Gaston's letter from her gown, and, finding it folded in
the proper manner, she exclaimed,--
"Not a doubt of it! I remember perfectly that I folded it with the
writing outside, as I put it back into the envelope; he must have read
it!"
An hour later, Madame de l'Estorade and Madame de Camps met in the
same salon where they had talked of Sallenauve a few days earlier.
"Good heavens! what is the matter with you?" cried Madame de Camps,
seeing tears on the face of her friend, who was finishing a letter she
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: lose sight, apparently, of their own interests, and to formulate
their indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the
exploited working class alone. Thus the aristocracy took their
revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering
in his ears sinister prophecies of coming catastrophe.
In this way arose Feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half
lampoon;
half echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by
its bitter,
witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the
very heart's
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