| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: on sociology, and what he would say to him about his book.
Only during the first days of his stay in Moscow Levin had been
struck by the expenditure, strange to one living in the country,
unproductive but inevitable, that was expected of him on every
side. But by now he had grown used to it. That had happened to
him in this matter which is said to happen to drunkards--the
first glass sticks in the throat, the second flies down like a
hawk, but after the third they're like tiny little birds. When
Levin had changed his first hundred-rouble note to pay for
liveries for his footmen and hall-porter he could not help
reflecting that these liveries were of no use to any one--but
Anna Karenina |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: that in the near future all five trains would be explaining not
the need to fight but the need to work. Undoubtedly, at the
first possible moment, the whole machinery of agitation, of
posters, of broadsheets and of trains, will be turned over to
the task of explaining the Government's plans for
reconstruction, and the need for extraordinary concentration,
now on transport, now on something else, that these plans
involve.
SATURDAYINGS
So much for the organization, with its Communist Party, its
system of meetings and counter-meetings, its adapted Trades
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: sought and found a genuine relief from her own sorrow in doing
what she could to alleviate the misery in that squalid, one-room
home. And then the sphere of her activities had broadened, slowly
at first, not through any preconceived intention on her part, but
naturally, and as almost an inevitable corollary consequent upon
her relations with the Bussard and his ill-fortuned family.
The Bussard's circle of intimates was amongst those who lay outside
the law, those who gambled for their livelihood by staking their
wits, to win against the toils of the police; and so, more and more,
she had come into close and intimate contact with the criminal
element of New York, until to-day, throughout its length and breadth,
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