| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: mighty fleet, second only to the navy of Helium, was the
ebon godar, Jeddak of the First Born, his heart beating
strong in anticipation of the coming moment when he
should hurl his savage crews and the weight of his mighty
ships upon the enemies of the warlord.
But would these allies reach the theatre of war in time
to be of avail to Helium? Or, would Helium need them?
Carthoris, with the other members of the crew of the
Thuria, heard the gossip and the rumours. None knew
of the two fleets, the one from the south and the other
from the north, that were coming to support the ships of
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: the house in Thirty-ninth Street or their comfortable
quarters at the Wellands' in Newport. After Dallas
had taken his degree she had thought it her duty to
travel for six months; and the whole family had made
the old-fashioned tour through England, Switzerland
and Italy. Their time being limited (no one knew why)
they had omitted France. Archer remembered Dallas's
wrath at being asked to contemplate Mont Blanc
instead of Rheims and Chartres. But Mary and Bill wanted
mountain-climbing, and had already yawned their way
in Dallas's wake through the English cathedrals; and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: question everything depends. I think we can. Yes, I think
we can. But I do not know that we can."
Non-partyism may well be the protoplasmic stage of the
future political opposition of the peasants.
POSSIBILITIES
I have done my best to indicate the essential facts in Russia's
problem today, and to describe the organization and
methods with which she is attempting its solution. I can give
no opinion as to whether by these means the Russians will
succeed in finding their way out of the quagmire of
industrial ruin in which they are involved. I can only say
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