| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: against riots, insurrections, and conspiracies. The cities, the
departments, and the faubourgs of Paris were continually rising
in revolt, although heads were falling by the thousand.
This Assembly, which thought itself sovereign, fought against the
invincible forces which were fixed in men's minds, and which
material constraint was powerless to overcome. Of these hidden
motive forces it never understood the power, and it struggled
against them in vain. In the end the invisible forces triumphed.
CHAPTER V
INSTANCES OF REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE
1. Psychological Causes of Revolutionary Violence.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: up; and they were grateful when West, in spite of my involuntary
shudders, offered to get rid of the thing quietly -- for a purpose
I knew too well.
There was bright moonlight over the snowless
landscape, but we dressed the thing and carried it home between
us through the deserted streets and meadows, as we had carried
a similar thing one horrible night in Arkham. We approached the
house from the field in the rear, took the specimen in the back
door and down the cellar stairs, and prepared it for the usual
experiment. Our fear of the police was absurdly great, though
we had timed our trip to avoid the solitary patrolman of that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: 'Fifty-five,' says she. And there I was stuck. 'Hold on,' says I;
'wait till I see my owners.' 'No, you don't,' says she. 'It's
customary,' says I. 'Not anywhere in the world,' says she. 'Then
it's courtesy in the Solomons,' says I.
"And d'ye know, on my faith I think Burnett'd have done it, only
she pipes up, sweet and pert as you please: 'Mr. Auctioneer, will
you kindly proceed with the sale in the customary manner? I've
other business to attend to, and I can't afford to wait all night
on men who don't know their own minds.' And then she smiles at
Burnett, as well--you know, one of those fetching smiles, and damme
if Burnett doesn't begin singing out: 'Goin', goin', goin'--last
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