| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: Just the reverse in 1848. The proletarian party appears as an appendage
to the small traders' or democratic party; it is betrayed by the latter
and allowed to fall on April 16, May 15, and in the June days. In its
turn, the democratic party leans upon the shoulders of the bourgeois
republicans; barely do the bourgeois republicans believe themselves
firmly in power, than they shake off these troublesome associates for
the purpose of themselves leaning upon the shoulders of the party of
Order. The party of Order draws in its shoulders, lets the bourgeois
republicans tumble down heels over head, and throws itself upon the
shoulders of the armed power. Finally, still of the mind that it is
sustained by the shoulders of the armed power, the party of Order
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: thought in his mind of ever intending to live on it. His game
was
in San Francisco. But he liked the ranch, and as soon as he got
back to the office he would open up negotiations with Hillard.
Besides, the ranch included the clay-pit, and it would give him
the
whip-hand over Holdsworthy if he ever tried to cut up any didoes.
CHAPTER X
The time passed, and Daylight played on at the game. But the
game had entered upon a new phase. The lust for power in the
mere gambling and winning was metamorphosing into the lust for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: toil with him through the cares and toils of poverty. It was gall
and wormwood to his soul to see that splendid, highly-accomplished
woman, once so courted and admired, transformed into an active
managing housewife, with hands and head continually occupied with
household labours and household economy. The very willingness with
which she performed these duties, the cheerfulness with which she
bore her reverses, and the kindness which withheld her from
imputing the smallest blame to him, were all perverted by this
ingenious self-tormentor into further aggravations of his
sufferings. And thus the mind preyed upon the body, and disordered
the system of the nerves, and they in turn increased the troubles
Agnes Grey |
