| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: past ages, viz., the exploitation of one part of society by the
other.
No wonder, then, that the social consciousness of past ages,
despite
all the multiplicity and variety it displays, moves within
certain
common forms, or general ideas, which cannot completely vanish
except
with the total disappearance of class antagonisms.
The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with
traditional property relations; no wonder that its development
The Communist Manifesto |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: were being choked by the suppressed passion of his grief.
Mr. Powell, though moved to a certain extent, was by no means
carried away. And just as he thought that it was all over, the
other, fidgeting in the darkness, was heard again explosive,
bewildered but not very loud in the silence of the ship and the
great empty peace of the sea.
"They have done something to him! What is it? What can it be?
Can't you guess? Don't you know?"
"Good heavens!" Young Powell was astounded on discovering that this
was an appeal addressed to him. "How on earth can I know?"
"You do talk to that white-faced, black-eyed . . . I've seen you
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass: felt, and, I am confident, every one who reads your
book will feel, persuaded that you give them a fair
specimen of the whole truth. No one-sided portrait,
--no wholesale complaints,--but strict justice done,
whenever individual kindliness has neutralized, for
a moment, the deadly system with which it was
strangely allied. You have been with us, too, some
years, and can fairly compare the twilight of rights,
which your race enjoy at the North, with that "noon
of night" under which they labor south of Mason
and Dixon's line. Tell us whether, after all, the half-
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave |
