| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: the East on the West.
The bourgeoisie keeps more and more doing away with the
scattered state of the population, of the means of production,
and of property. It has agglomerated production, and has
concentrated property in a few hands. The necessary consequence
of this was political centralisation. Independent, or but
loosely connected provinces, with separate interests, laws,
governments and systems of taxation, became lumped together into
one nation, with one government, one code of laws, one national
class-interest, one frontier and one customs-tariff. The
bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: The nautical phrases, unintelligible to ears unused to the sound of
the sea, seemed to put fresh energy into the oars; they kept time
together, the rhythm of the movement was still even and steady, but
quite unlike the previous manner of rowing; it was as if a cantering
horse had broken into a gallop. The gay company seated in the stern
amused themselves by watching the brawny arms, the tanned faces, and
sparkling eyes of the rowers, the play of the tense muscles, the
physical and mental forces that were being exerted to bring them for a
trifling toll across the channel. So far from pitying the rowers'
distress, they pointed out the men's faces to each other, and laughed
at the grotesque expressions on the faces of the crew who were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: his machine close beside mine suggested that we approach
and watch the ceremony, which, he said, was for the purpose
of conferring honors on individual officers and men for
bravery and other distinguished service. He then unfurled
a little ensign which denoted that his craft bore a member
of the royal family of Zodanga, and together we made our
way through the maze of low-lying air vessels until we hung
directly over the jeddak of Zodanga and his staff. All were
mounted upon the small domestic bull thoats of the red
Martians, and their trappings and ornamentation bore such
a quantity of gorgeously colored feathers that I could not but
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