| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary
condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any
property for the immense majority of society.
In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your
property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend.
From the moment when labour can no longer be converted into
capital, money, or rent, into a social power capable of being
monopolised, i.e., from the moment when individual property can
no longer be transformed into bourgeois property, into capital,
from that moment, you say individuality vanishes.
You must, therefore, confess that by "individual" you mean no
The Communist Manifesto |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: to him and he had gathered strength enough, he stood up and
looked around to see where Fate had cast him; and far away on the
hill-sides he saw the walls and the roofs and the towers of the
great town, shining in the sunlight as white as snow.
"Well," said he, "here is something to be thankful for, at
least," and so saying and shaking the stiffness out of his knees
and elbows, he started off for the white walls and the red roofs
in the distance.
At last he reached the great gate, and through it he could see
the stony streets and multitudes of people coming and going.
But it was not for him to enter that gate. Out popped two
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: Mr. Enfield, that their way lay once again through the by-street;
and that when they came in front of the door, both stopped to gaze
on it.
"Well," said Enfield, "that story's at an end at least. We
shall never see more of Mr. Hyde."
"I hope not," said Utterson. "Did I ever tell you that I once
saw him, and shared your feeling of repulsion?"
"It was impossible to do the one without the other," returned
Enfield. "And by the way, what an ass you must have thought me,
not to know that this was a back way to Dr. Jekyll's! It was
partly your own fault that I found it out, even when I did."
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
