| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: which I sent for Mameena to learn if it were true. She will be
glad to meet you, Macumazahn, she who has a hungry heart that
does not forget. Oh! don't be afraid. I mean here beneath the
sun, in the land beyond there will be no need for her to meet you
since she will dwell ever at your side."
"Why do you lie to me, Zikali?" I seemed to ask. "How can a dead
man speak to you and how can I meet a woman who is dead?"
"Seek the answer to that question in the hour of the battle when
the white men, your brothers, fall beneath assegai as weeds fall
before the hoe--or perhaps before it. But have done with
Mameena, since she who never grows more old can well afford to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Purse by Honore de Balzac: This room did duty as a museum of certain objects, such as are
never seen but in this kind of amphibious household; nameless
objects with the stamp at once of luxury and penury. Among other
curiosities Hippolyte noticed a splendidly finished telescope,
hanging over the small discolored glass that decorated the
chimney. To harmonize with this strange collection of furniture,
there was, between the chimney and the partition, a wretched
sideboard of painted wood, pretending to be mahogany, of all
woods the most impossible to imitate. But the slippery red
quarries, the shabby little rugs in front of the chairs, and all
the furniture, shone with the hard rubbing cleanliness which
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: troops to file before him in front of the Tuileries, and that he seized
with avidity this very first open exercise of the military against the
parliamentary power in order to hint at Caligula. The allied royalists
saw only their own Changarnier.
Another reason that particularly moved the party of Order forcibly to
shorten the term of the constitutional assembly were the organic laws,
the laws that were to supplement the Constitution, as, for instance, the
laws on education, on religion, etc. The allied royalists had every
interest in framing these laws themselves, and not allowing them to be
framed by the already suspicious republicans. Among these organic laws,
there was, however, one on the responsibility of the President of the
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