| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: and downcast. They fall into two divisions: one, the
knight of the blue face and hollow paunch, whom Winter
has gotten by the vitals; the other well lined with New-
year's fare, conscious of the touch of cold on his
periphery, but stepping through it by the glow of his
internal fires. Such an one I remember, triply cased in
grease, whom no extremity of temperature could vanquish.
'Well,' would be his jovial salutation, 'here's a
sneezer!' And the look of these warm fellows is tonic,
and upholds their drooping fellow-townsmen. There is yet
another class who do not depend on corporal advantages,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: anything that would sound reasonable to minds inured to the
ferocious barbarities of capitalism. After the triumph of the
international proletariat, war would of course be inconceivable;
and who can figure the cost of war to humanity--not merely the
value of the lives and the material that it destroys, not merely
the cost of keeping millions of men in idleness, of arming and
equipping them for battle and parade, but the drain upon the
vital energies of society by the war attitude and the war terror,
the brutality and ignorance, the drunkenness, prostitution, and
crime it entails, the industrial impotence and the moral
deadness? Do you think that it would be too much to say that two
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: you to Circe's house.'
"On this we all went inland, and Eurylochus was not left behind
after all, but came on too, for he was frightened by the severe
reprimand that I had given him.
"Meanwhile Circe had been seeing that the men who had been left
behind were washed and anointed with olive oil; she had also
given them woollen cloaks and shirts, and when we came we found
them all comfortably at dinner in her house. As soon as the men
saw each other face to face and knew one another, they wept for
joy and cried aloud till the whole palace rang again. Thereon
Circe came up to me and said, 'Ulysses, noble son of Laertes,
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