| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: which no ships might ever be expected to come.
And so it was that when the first fair wind rose he embarked
upon his cruise, and with him he took as strange and
fearsome a crew as ever sailed under a savage master.
Mugambi and Akut went with him, and Sheeta, the panther,
and a dozen great males of the tribe of Akut.
Chapter 6
A Hideous Crew
The war-canoe with its savage load moved slowly toward the
break in the reef through which it must pass to gain the
open sea. Tarzan, Mugambi, and Akut wielded the paddles,
The Beasts of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: Jazz. "Jazz is the fellow we want for City Clerk," I heard him
tell his comrades. I had never heard of Jazz in those days: Jazz
was decidedly a dark horse. But the man was strong for him and
wanted his friends to vote the same way.
There is a trick that was often used in small-town elections.
When the "reform element" made a fight on the "old gang" it was
customary for the gang to lie down and place the name of the new
man on the ticket. The reformer thought the gang beaten and that
his own election was sure, so he didn't make a hard campaign. But
the gang quietly passed around word to scratch the name of the
reformer and to write in the name of a gang candidate in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: proletarians.
In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed,
in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working
class, developed -- a class of labourers, who live only so long
as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour
increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves
piece-meal, are a commodity, like every other article of
commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of
competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.
Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of
labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual
The Communist Manifesto |
