| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: of the bourgeoisie itself, whose interests have become
antagonistic
to the progress of industry; at all times, with the bourgeoisie
of foreign countries. In all these battles it sees itself
compelled
to appeal to the proletariat, to ask for its help, and thus, to
drag
it into the political arena. The bourgeoisie itself, therefore,
supplies the proletariat with its own instruments of political
and general education, in other words, it furnishes the
proletariat
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Message by Honore de Balzac: zealous doctor might lean to watch any change in a patient's
face. When she seemed to me to have opened her whole heart to
pain, to be deliberately plunging herself into misery with the
first delirious frenzy of despair, I caught at my opportunity,
and told her of the fears that troubled the poor dying man, told
her how and why it was that he had given me this fatal message.
Then her tears were dried by the fires that burned in the dark
depths within her. She grew even paler. When I drew the letters
from beneath my pillow and held them out to her, she took them
mechanically; then, trembling from head to foot, she said in a
hollow voice:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela: burning like a roof afire. He began to sing. He put such
feeling into his voice and such expression into the strings
that, as he finished, Demetrio turned his head aside to
hide his tears.
But Valderrama fell upon him, embraced him warmly,
and with a familiarity he showed everyone at the ap-
propriate moment, he whispered:
"Drink them! . . . Those are beautiful tears."
Demetrio asked for the bottle, passed it to Valder-
rama. Greedily the poet drank half its contents in one
gulp; then, showing only the whites of his eyes, he faced
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