| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: specified that two-thirds of the members of the new Assembly
should be chosen from among the deputies of the Convention. This
prudent measure was not very efficacious, as only ten departments
remained faithful to the Jacobins.
To avoid the election of royalists, the Convention had decided to
banish all emigres in perpetuity.
The announcement of this Constitution did not produce the
anticipated effect upon the public. It had no effect upon the
popular riots, which continued. One of the most important was
that which threatened the Convention on the 5th of October, 1795.
The leaders hurled a veritable army upon the Assembly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: South,--"in England a man isn't allowed to play with no
fire-arms. He's got to be taught all that when he enlists. I
didn't want much teaching how to shoot straight 'fore I served
Uncle Sam. And that's just where it is. But you was talking
about your Horse Guards now?"
I explained briefly some peculiarities of equipment connected
with our crackest crack cavalry. I grieve to say the camp roared.
"Take 'em over swampy ground. Let 'em run around a bit an' work
the starch out of 'em, an' then, Almighty, if we wouldn't plug
'em at ease I'd eat their horses."
There was a maiden--a very little maiden--who had just stepped
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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: 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
section.
The result was wearily anticlimactic. Ghastly as our
prize appeared, it was wholly unresponsive to every solution we
injected in its black arm; solutions prepared from experience
with white specimens only. So as the hour grew dangerously near
to dawn, we did as we had done with the others -- dragged the
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