| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: the democratic small traders' class, just as a year before it had
understood the necessity of putting an end to the revolutionary
proletariat.
But the position of the foe had changed. The strength of the
proletarian party was on the streets ; that of the small traders' class
was in the National Assembly itself. The point was, accordingly, to
wheedle them out of the National Assembly into the street, and to have
them break their parliamentary power themselves, before I time and
opportunity could consolidate them. The Mountain jumped with loose
reins into the trap.
The bombardment of Rome by the French troops was the bait thrown at the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: remain stock still on the verandah, adoring the back view of her
supple, swaying figure, the miraculous sheen of her fair head, the
rapid hands on the keys, the white nape of her neck - while the
brig, down at the point there, surged at her cables within a
hundred yards of nasty, shiny, black rock-heads. Ugh!
And this, if you please, for no reason but that, when he went on
board at night and laid his head on the pillow, he should feel that
he was as near as he could conveniently get to his Freya slumbering
in the bungalow. Did you ever! And, mind, this brig was the home
to be - their home - the floating paradise which he was gradually
fitting out like a yacht to sail his life blissfully away in with
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: have looked even worse in life -- but the world holds many ugly
things. Fear was upon the whole pitiful crowd, for they did not
know what the law would exact of them if the affair were not hushed
up; and they were grateful when West, in spite of my involuntary
shudders, offered to get rid of the thing quietly -- for a purpose
I knew too well.
There was bright moonlight over the snowless
landscape, but we dressed the thing and carried it home between
us through the deserted streets and meadows, as we had carried
a similar thing one horrible night in Arkham. We approached the
house from the field in the rear, took the specimen in the back
Herbert West: Reanimator |
