| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: against me that I know nothing about."
"I don't see why you call it a trick. There's nothing easier for you
than not to write a pamphlet; you'll simply be Jerome Thuillier, as
before."
"And yet it was you yourself who declared that this publication would
help my election; besides, I repeat, I have read passages to all our
friends, I have announced the matter in the municipal council, and if
the work were not to appear I should be dishonored; people would be
sure to say the government had bought me up."
"You have only to say that you are the friend of Phellion, the
incorruptible; that will clear you. You might even give Celeste to his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: however individually brave, were timid as a class. They could never
hold out on strike against the governments, and had to submit to the
powers that were, whatever they were, under penalty of ruin.
But on the Continent, and especially in France and Germany, unable
to strengthen itself by intermarriage with the noblesse, they
retained that timidity which is the fruit of the insecurity of
trade; and had to submit to a more and more centralised despotism,
and grow up as they could, in the face of exasperating hindrances to
wealth, to education, to the possession, in many parts of France, of
large landed estates; leaving the noblesse to decay in isolated
uselessness and weakness, and in many cases debt and poverty.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: eyes of children, and I have been a fool in writing to the
contrary. Very sorry for myself, I sought a hotel, and found in
the hall a reporter who wished to know what I thought of the
country. Him I lured into conversation about his own profession,
and from him gained much that confirmed me in my views of the
grinding tyranny of that thing which they call the Press here.
Thus:--I--But you talk about interviewing people whether they
like it or not. Have you no bounds beyond which even your
indecent curiosity must not go?
HE--I haven't struck 'em yet. What do you think of interviewing
a widow two hours after her husband's death, to get her version
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