| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: to think.
"Mr. Ramage," she said, "I can't-- Not now. Will you please--
Not now, or I must go."
He stared at her, trying to guess at the mystery of her thoughts.
"You don't want to go?"
"No. But I must--I ought--"
"I MUST talk about this. Indeed I must."
"Not now."
"But I love you. I love you--unendurably."
"Then don't talk to me now. I don't want you to talk to me now.
There is a place-- This isn't the place. You have misunderstood.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: of Newman's hand. "I have been watching you for a quarter of an hour,"
Valentin went on; "you have been looking as black as thunder.
You are greatly disgusted with me, I see. Well, of course!
So am I!"
"Oh, I shall not scold you," said Newman. "I feel too badly.
And how are you getting on?"
"Oh, I'm getting off! They have quite settled that; haven't they?"
"That's for you to settle; you can get well if you try,"
said Newman, with resolute cheerfulness.
"My dear fellow, how can I try? Trying is violent exercise,
and that sort of thing isn't in order for a man with a hole
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: society, and to impose its conditions of existence upon society
as an over-riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is
incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his
slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a
state, that it has to feed him, instead of being fed by him.
Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie, in other
words, its existence is no longer compatible with society.
The essential condition for the existence, and for the sway of
the bourgeois class, is the formation and augmentation of
capital; the condition for capital is wage-labour. Wage-labour
rests exclusively on competition between the laborers. The
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