| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: card, that, the sovereign people plays out once every four years. The
elected National Assembly stands in a metaphysical, but the elected
President in a personal, relation to the nation. True enough, the
National Assembly presents in its several Representatives the various
sides of the national spirit, but, in the President, this spirit is
incarnated. As against the National Assembly, the President possesses a
sort of divine right, he is by the grace of the people.
Thetis, the sea-goddess, had prophesied to Achilles that he would die in
the bloom of youth. The Constitution, which had its weak spot, like
Achilles, had also, like Achilles, the presentiment that it would depart
by premature death. It was enough for the pure republicans, engaged at
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: this was Elwell's portrait; and it was the portrait of the man
who had spoken to her in the garden. She lifted her head and
looked slowly about the library. The library could have borne
witness that it was also the portrait of the man who had come in
that day to call Boyne from his unfinished letter. Through the
misty surgings of her brain she heard the faint boom of half-
forgotten words--words spoken by Alida Stair on the lawn at
Pangbourne before Boyne and his wife had ever seen the house at
Lyng, or had imagined that they might one day live there.
"This was the man who spoke to me," she repeated.
She looked again at Parvis. He was trying to conceal his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: we see her in obvious error.' And when she heard of their
craftiness, she sent to them, and prepared for them a banquet, and
gave each of them a knife; and she said, 'Come forth to them!' And
when they saw him they said, 'Great God!' and cut their hands and
said, 'God forbid! This is no mortal, this is nothing but an
honourable angel.' Said she, 'This is he concerning whom ye blamed me.
I did desire him for his person, but he was too continent. But if he
do not what I bid him he shall surely be imprisoned and shall surely
be among the small!' Said he, 'My Lord! Prison is dearer to me than
what they call on me to do; and unless Thou turn from me their
craftiness I shall feel a passion for them and shall be among the
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