| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: She turned her grateful eyes to his.
"The peace of God fills the world--and I owe it all
to you."
"Nonsense. Your sturdy will and cultivated mind
did the work. I merely made the suggestion."
"You are not going to give me an anesthetic, are
you?" she said evenly.
"Why did you ask that?"
"Because I wish to feel and know the pain and glory
of it all."
"You don't wish to take it?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: Modern Industry; the proletariat is its special and essential
product. The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the
shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the
bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions
of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but
conservative. Nay more, they are reactionary, for they try to
roll back the wheel of history. If by chance they are
revolutionary, they are so only in view of their impending
transfer into the proletariat, they thus defend not their
present, but their future interests, they desert their own
standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat.
The Communist Manifesto |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: be glad to have you, if you will be sober and mind your own
business; if not, there is a boat alongside, and I'll have you
set ashore."
The poor half-tipsy captain had no relish to go a-pirating under
the command of his backsliding mate, so out of the ship he
bundled, and away he rowed with four or five of the crew, who,
like him, refused to join with their jolly shipmates.
The rest of them sailed away to the East Indies, to try their
fortunes in those waters, for our Captain Avary was of a high
spirit, and had no mind to fritter away his time in the West
Indies squeezed dry by buccaneer Morgan and others of lesser
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
