| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: the then undeveloped state of the proletariat, as well as to the
absence of the economic conditions for its emancipation,
conditions that had yet to be produced, and could be produced by
the impending bourgeois epoch alone. The revolutionary
literature
that accompanied these first movements of the proletariat had
necessarily a reactionary character. It inculcated universal
asceticism and social levelling in its crudest form.
The Socialist and Communist systems properly so called, those of
Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen and others, spring into existence in
the early undeveloped period, described above, of the struggle
The Communist Manifesto |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: than I did that morning when West muttered through his bandages,
"Damn it, it wasn’t quite fresh enough!"
III. Six Shots by Moonlight
Published
April 1922 in Home Brew Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 21-26.
It is uncommon
to fire all six shots of a revolver with great suddenness when
one would probably be sufficient, but many things in the life
of Herbert West were uncommon. It is, for instance, not often
that a young physician leaving college is obliged to conceal the
principles which guide his selection of a home and office, yet
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson: 'Sir,' said he to Van Tromp, 'I am told I have done you much
injustice.'
There came a little sound in Esther's throat, and she put her
hand suddenly to her heart.
'You have, sir; and the acknowledgment suffices,' replied the
Admiral. 'I am prepared, sir, to be easy with you, since I
hear you have made it up with my friend Dick. But let me
remind you that you owe some apologies to this young lady
also.'
'I shall have the temerity to ask for more than her
forgiveness,' said the Squire. 'Miss Van Tromp,' he
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