| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: with such borrowed language Thus did Luther masquerade as the Apostle
Paul; thus did the revolution of 1789-1814 drape itself alternately as
Roman Republic and as Roman Empire; nor did the revolution of 1818 know
what better to do than to parody at one time the year 1789, at another
the revolutionary traditions of 1793-95 Thus does the beginner, who has
acquired a new language, keep on translating it back into his own mother
tongue; only then has he grasped the spirit of the new language and is
able freely to express himself therewith when he moves in it without
recollections of the old, and has forgotten in its use his own
hereditary tongue.
When these historic configurations of the dead past are closely observed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: Soft, by and by, let me the Curtaines draw.
Where art thou? What's the matter with thee now?
Enter aemilia.
Aemil. Oh my good Lord, yonders foule Murthers
done
Oth. What? now?
Aemil. But now, my Lord
Oth. It is the very error of the Moone,
She comes more neerer Earth then she was wont,
And makes men mad.
Aemil. Cassio, my Lord, hath kill'd
Othello |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: his great "Ha! ha!" and "Ho! ho!" rose up to the sky and challenged the sun.
And at black midnight, from the lonely cross-roads where he turned from town
into his own place, came his plaguey cachinnations to rouse me from my sleep
and make me writhe and clench my nails into my palms.
I went forth privily in the night-time, and turned his cattle into his fields,
and in the morning heard his whooping laugh as he drove them out again. "It is
nothing," he said; "the poor, dumb beasties are not to be blamed for straying
into fatter pastures."
He had a dog he called "Mars," a big, splendid brute, part deer-hound and part
blood-hound, and resembling both. Mars was a great delight to him, and they
were always together. But I bided my time, and one day, when opportunity was
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