| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: exaggerated, accordin' to what you told me; but you've shore
made friends on this side of the Nueces. I reckon there ain't a
town where you wouldn't find people to welcome you. Huntsville,
you know, is some divided in its ideas. Half the people are
crooked. Likely enough, all them who was so loud in praise of
you are the crookedest. For instance, I met King Fisher, the
boss outlaw of these parts. Well, King thinks he's a decent
citizen. He was tellin' me what a grand job yours was for the
border an' honest cattlemen. Now that Bland and Alloway are
done for, King Fisher will find rustlin' easier. There's talk
of Hardin movie' his camp over to Bland's. But I don't know how
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Sign of the Cat & Racket by Honore de Balzac: Monsieur Guillaume had looked to a good investment, even in the
purchase of a candlestick. In the midst of this bazaar, where splendor
revealed the owner's want of occupation, Sommervieux's famous picture
filled the place of honor, and in it Monsieur and Madame Guillaume
found their chief consolation, turning their eyes, harnessed with eye-
glasses, twenty times a day on this presentment of their past life, to
them so active and amusing. The appearance of this mansion and these
rooms, where everything had an aroma of staleness and mediocrity, the
spectacle offered by these two beings, cast away, as it were, on a
rock far from the world and the ideas which are life, startled
Augustine; she could here contemplate the sequel of the scene of which
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: occurred at the General Congress of the International
at the Hague in 1872. The meeting-place was
chosen by the General Council (in which Marx was
unopposed), with a view--so Bakunin's friends contend--
to making access impossible for Bakunin (on
account of the hostility of the French and German
governments) and difficult for his friends. Bakunin
was expelled from the International as the result of
a report accusing him inter alia of theft backed; up
by intimidation.
The orthodoxy of the International was saved,
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