| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: up to that part called the Hythe, close to the houses, it is
navigable for hoys and small barques. This Hythe is a long street,
passing from west to east, on the south side of the town. At the
west end of it, there is a small intermission of the buildings, but
not much; and towards the river it is very populous (it may be
called the Wapping of Colchester). There is one church in that
part of the town, a large quay by the river, and a good custom-
house.
The town may be said chiefly to subsist by the trade of making
bays, which is known over most of the trading parts of Europe by
the name of Colchester Bays, though indeed all the towns round
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority
that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs
and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.
Major continued:
"I have little more to say. I merely repeat, remember always your duty of
enmity towards Man and all his ways. Whatever goes upon two legs is an
enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. And
remember also that in fighting against Man, we must not come to resemble
him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices. No animal
must ever live in a house, or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink
alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade. All the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: the dogs, as simple and more righteous peoples have perished ere
now by millions? And what else, I say, had been the fate of
Ireland had this invasion prospered, which God has now, by our weak
hands, confounded and brought to naught? Shall we then answer it,
my lord, either to our conscience, our God, or our queen, if we
shall set loose men (not one of whom, I warrant, but is stained
with murder on murder) to go and fill up the cup of their iniquity
among these silly sheep? Have not their native wolves, their
barbarous chieftains, shorn, peeled, and slaughtered them enough
already, but we must add this pack of foreign wolves to the number
of their tormentors, and fit the Desmond with a body-guard of
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