| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: according to means; but Henchard had doggedly retained the
fretted and weather-beaten garments of bygone years.
Hence, alas, this occurred: Lucetta's eyes slid over him to
this side and to that without anchoring on his features--as
gaily dressed women's eyes will too often do on such
occasions. Her manner signified quite plainly that she
meant to know him in public no more.
But she was never tired of watching Donald, as he stood in
animated converse with his friends a few yards off, wearing
round his young neck the official gold chain with great
square links, like that round the Royal unicorn. Every
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: revolution far enough not to be able to keep pace with, much less march
ahead of it, it is shoved aside by its more daring allies, who stand
behind it, and it is sent to the guillotine. Thus the revolution moves
along an upward line.
Just the reverse in 1848. The proletarian party appears as an appendage
to the small traders' or democratic party; it is betrayed by the latter
and allowed to fall on April 16, May 15, and in the June days. In its
turn, the democratic party leans upon the shoulders of the bourgeois
republicans; barely do the bourgeois republicans believe themselves
firmly in power, than they shake off these troublesome associates for
the purpose of themselves leaning upon the shoulders of the party of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: soon as the soldiers saw him, they saluted him in their
Macedonian dialect, and took up their shields, and striking them
with their pikes, gave a great shout; inviting the enemy to come
on, for now they had a leader.
Antigonus understanding by some prisoners he had taken that
Eumenes was out of health, to that degree that he was carried in
a litter, presumed it would be no hard matter to crush the rest
of them, since he was ill. He therefore made the greater haste
to come up with them and engage. But being come so near as to
discover how the enemy was drawn up and appointed, he was
astonished, and paused for some time; at last he saw the litter
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