| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: Soviets or Congresses of all kinds are explicitly described
as "Non-party." Non-partyism is perhaps a sign of revolt
against rigid discipline of any kind. Now and then, of
course, a clever Menshevik or Social Revolutionary, by
trimming his sails carefully to the wind, gets himself elected
on a non-party ticket. 'When this happens there is usually a
great hullabaloo as soon as he declares himself. A section of
his electors agitates for his recall and presently some one else
is elected in his stead. But non-partyism is much more than
a mere cloak of invisibility for enemies or conditional
supporters of the Communists. I know of considerable
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: present knowledge. It had not sufficed the prodigious inventor to
create a flying machine, perfect as that was! He had planned to
construct a machine which could conquer all the elements at once.
Probably in the workshops of Island X, a selected body of devoted
workmen had constructed, one by one, the pieces of this marvelous
machine, with its quadruple transformation. Then the second
"Albatross" must have carried these pieces to the Great Eyrie, where
they had been put together, within easier access of the world of men
than the far-off island had permitted. The "Albatross" itself had
apparently been destroyed, whether by accident or design, within the
eyrie The "Terror" had then made its appearance on the roads of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ebb-Tide by Stevenson & Osbourne: and might utter oracles. Herrick looked at him, and looked
away; It seemed not decent to spy upon such agitation; and the
young man's courage sank.
'You talk of going home,' he objected. 'We could never do
that.'
'WE could,' said the other. 'Captain Brown couldn't, nor Mr
Hay, that shipped mate with him couldn't. But what's that to do
with Captain Davis or Mr Herrick, you galoot?'
'But Hayes had these wild islands where he used to call,' came
the next fainter objection.
'We have the wild islands of Peru,' retorted Davis. 'They were
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