| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: and large scale would become profitable and not very
dangerous. It would be possible, no doubt, for foreigners to
trade with the Russians as with the natives of the cannibal
islands, bartering looking-glasses and cheap tools, but,
should such a state of things come to be, it would mean long
years of colonization, with all the new possibilities and risks
involved in the subjugation of a free people, before Western
Europe could count once more on getting a considerable
portion of its food from Russian corn lands.
That is the position, those the natural tendencies at work.
But opposed to these tendencies are the united efforts of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: wife. Well, if I had died and lived again, why should not--why
should not that Sleeper--have lived again during her long sleep?
Through all those years the spirit must have had some home, and,
if so, in what shapes did it live? There were points,
similarities, which rushed in upon me--oh! it was ridiculous.
Bickley was right. We were all mad!
There was another thing. Oro had declared that we were at war
with Germany. If this were so, how could he know it? Such
knowledge would presume powers of telepathy or vision beyond
those given to man. I could not believe that he possessed these;
as Bickley said, it would be past experience. Yet it was most
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: Speak, fair; but speak fair words, or else be mute:
Give me one kiss, I'll give it thee again, 209
And one for interest if thou wilt have twain.
'Fie! lifeless picture, cold and senseless stone,
Well-painted idol, image dull and dead, 212
Statue contenting but the eye alone,
Thing like a man, but of no woman bred:
Thou art no man, though of a man's complexion,
For men will kiss even by their own direction.' 216
This said, impatience chokes her pleading tongue,
And swelling passion doth provoke a pause;
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