| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: was after."
Dr. Martineau retained a simple fondness for a story.
"And did you meet her again?"
"Never. Of course I may have seen her as a dressed-up person
and not recognized her. A day or so later I was stabbed to
the heart by the discovery that the tent she came out of had
been taken away. "
"She had gone?"
"For ever."
Sir Richmond smiled brightly at the doctor's disappointment.
Section 3
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: "But you cannot expect me to believe that a dead
man has the power to put out of joint the meteor-
ology of this part of the world. Though indeed
it seems to have gone utterly wrong. The land and
sea breezes have got broken up into small pieces.
We cannot depend upon them for five minutes to-
gether."
"It won't be very long now before I can come up
on deck," muttered Mr. Burns, "and then we shall
see."
Whether he meant this for a promise to grapple
The Shadow Line |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: that they could then also expect better cash payment for their increased
deserts, while at the merely periodic states of siege and the transitory
savings of society at the behest of this or that bourgeois faction, very
little solid matter fell to them except some dead and wounded, besides
some friendly bourgeois grimaces. Should not the military, finally, in
and for its own interest, play the game of "state of siege," and
simultaneously besiege the bourgeois exchanges? Moreover, it must not
be forgotten, and be it observed in passing, that Col. Bernard, the same
President of the Military Committee, who, under Cavaignac, helped to
deport 15,000 insurgents without trial, moves at this period again at
the head of the Military Committees now active in Paris.
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