| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: 1970's were produced in ALL CAPS, no lower case. The
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The Mayflower Compact
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: be a waste of time for them to leave the work they
understand in order to do badly work which others
could do far better and more quickly. That, however,
does not touch our present point, which is the
question how the MSS. to be printed will be selected.
In Kropotkin's plan there will presumably be an
Author's Guild, with a Committee of Management,
if Anarchism allows such things. This Committee
of Management will decide which of the books submitted
to it are worthy to be printed. Among these
will be included those by the Committee and their
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: he carried me with him almost against my will. There were reasons
why I could have been glad to let the war separate us; reasons
why I found the practice of medicine and the companionship of
West more and more irritating; but when he had gone to Ottawa
and through a colleague’s influence secured a medical commission
as Major, I could not resist the imperious persuasion of one determined
that I should accompany him in my usual capacity.
When I say
that Dr. West was avid to serve in battle, I do not mean to imply
that he was either naturally warlike or anxious for the safety
of civilisation. Always an ice-cold intellectual machine; slight,
Herbert West: Reanimator |
