| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: looking-glass that hung from the woodwork of the wagon, for I had been
using it to brush my hair, and smiled very sweetly.
"At least you have your husband, Mameena, and I thought that perhaps by
this time--"
She held up her hand.
"My husband! Oh, I would that I had him not, for I hate him,
Macumazahn; and as for the rest--never! The truth is that I never cared
for any man except one whose name _you_ may chance to remember,
Macumazahn."
"I suppose you mean Saduko--" I began.
"Tell me, Macumazahn," she inquired innocently, "are white people very
Child of Storm |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: that there could be but one outcome." He held them toward
the Russian.
Rokoff's cruel face lighted in malignant gloating. He seized
the bits of paper.
"You have done well, Gernois," he said. "I shall not trouble
you again--unless you happen to accumulate some more money or
information," and he grinned.
"You never shall again, you dog!" hissed Gernois. "The
next time I shall kill you. I came near doing it tonight.
For an hour I sat with these two pieces of paper on my table
before me ere I came here--beside them lay my loaded revolver.
The Return of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working
class; but in the movement of the present, they also represent
and take care of the future of that movement. In France the
Communists ally themselves with the Social-Democrats, against the
conservative and radical bourgeoisie, reserving, however, the
right to take up a critical position in regard to phrases and
illusions traditionally handed down from the great Revolution.
In Switzerland they support the Radicals, without losing sight
of the fact that this party consists of antagonistic elements,
partly of Democratic Socialists, in the French sense, partly of
radical bourgeois.
The Communist Manifesto |
