| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: oranges, limes, barbadines, pine-apples, Cape gooseberries -
galore; pints of milk and cream; fresh meat five days a week.
It is the rarest thing for any of us to touch a tin; and the
gnashing of teeth when it has to be done is dreadful - for no
one who has not lived on them for six months knows what the
Hatred of the Tin is. As for exposure, my weakness is
certainly the reverse; I am sometimes a month without leaving
the verandah - for my sins, be it said! Doubtless, when I go
about and, as the Doctor says, 'expose myself to malaria,' I
am in far better health; and I would do so more too - for I
do not mean to be silly - but the difficulties are great.
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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: all rule in common. Already the June insurrection had united them all
into a "Party of Order." The next thing to do was to remove the
bourgeois republicans who still held the seats in the National Assembly.
As brutally as these pure republicans had abused their own physical
power against the people, so cowardly, low-spirited, disheartened,
broken, powerless did they yield, now when the issue was the maintenance
of their own republicanism and their own legislative rights against the
Executive power and the royalists I need not here narrate the shameful
history of their dissolution. It was not a downfall, it was extinction.
Their history is at an end for all time. In the period that follows,
they figure, whether within or without the Assembly, only as
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: of angry bees. The deserted Shawnee village meant to me that the alarm had
been sounded in the towns of the Shawnees and the Delawares; perhaps also in
the Wyandot towns to the north. Colonel Crawford was obdurate and insisted on
resuming the march into the Indian country. The next day we met the Indians
coming directly toward us. It was the combined force of the Delaware chiefs,
Pipe an Wingenund. The battle had hardly commenced when the redskins Were
reinforced by four hundred warriors under Shanshota, the Huron chief. The
enemy skulked behind trees and rocks, hid in ravines, and crawled through the
long grass. They could be picked off only by Indian hunters, of whom Crawford
had but few--probably fifty all told. All that day we managed to keep our
position, though we lost sixty men. That night we lay down to rest by great
Betty Zane |
