| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: it is self-evident that the abolition of the present system of
production must bring with it the abolition of the community
of women springing from that system, i.e., of prostitution
both public and private.
The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish
countries and nationality.
The working men have no country. We cannot take from them what
they have not got. Since the proletariat must first of all
acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of
the nation, must constitute itself the nation, it is, so far,
itself national, though not in the bourgeois sense of the word.
The Communist Manifesto |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: quick-stirring spirits of the age too long to swallow chaff for
grain. You are a gentleman of birth and breeding--your bearing
makes it good; of civil habits and fair reputation--your manners
declare it, and my uncle avouches it; and yet you associate
yourself with a sort of scant-of-grace, as men call me, and,
knowing me to be such, you make yourself my companion in a visit
to a man whom you are a stranger to--and all out of mere
curiosity, forsooth! The excuse, if curiously balanced, would be
found to want some scruples of just weight, or so."
"If your suspicions were just," said Tressilian, "you have shown
no confidence in me to invite or deserve mine."
Kenilworth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: "She's locking him in the bathroom," declared Aggie, and with
that she disappeared from the room, bent on rescue.
"My Alfred!" cried Zoie, tragically, and she started in pursuit
of Aggie.
"Wait a minute," called Jimmy, who had not yet been able to find
a satisfactory place in which to deposit his armful of clothes
and humanity. "What shall I do with these things?"
"Eat 'em," was Zoie's helpful retort, as the trailing end of her
negligee disappeared from the room.
CHAPTER XXIX
Now, had Jimmy been less perturbed during the latter part of this
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