| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: Constitution, and stands between this people and chaos?
It is a commonplace to say that Russia is ruled, driven if you
like, cold, starving as she is, to effort after effort by the
dictatorship of a party. It is a commonplace alike in the
mouths of those who wish to make the continued existence
of that organization impossible and in the mouths of the
Communists themselves. At the second congress of the
Third International, Trotsky remarked. "A party as such, in
the course of the development of a revolution, becomes
identical with the revolution." Lenin, on the same occasion,
replying to a critic who said that he differed from, the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: stick up a treasure train with three heavily armed guards
protecting the gold. They got them right, with the drop on them,
and it was good-by to the mazuma."
"Yes, if they have had any warning or if our plans slip a cog
anywhere we shall be repulsed to a certainty."
By the light of a moon struggling out from behind rolling clouds
Bucky read eleven-thirty on his watch when the party reached Agua
Negra. It was still thirty minutes before the Flyer was due, and
O'Halloran disposed his forces with explicit directions as to the
course to be followed by each detail. Very rapidly he sketched
his orders as to the present disposition of the wagons and the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: had extinguished it, when one of the lower windows gave way under
the violence of the flames, and a long, soft, caressing sheet of
red flame mounted up the white wall, and kissed it as high as the
roof. The light fell on to the trees, the branches, and the
leaves, and a shiver of fear pervaded them also! The birds awoke;
a dog began to howl, and it seemed to me as if the day were
breaking! Almost immediately two other windows flew into
fragments, and I saw that the whole of the lower part of my house
was nothing but a terrible furnace. But a cry, a horrible,
shrill, heart-rending cry, a woman's cry, sounded through the
night, and two garret windows were opened! I had forgotten the
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