| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: less tremendous.
CHAPTER XIX - THE LETTER
MY father's mortal remains had been consigned to the tomb; and we,
with sad faces and sombre garments, sat lingering over the frugal
breakfast-table, revolving plans for our future life. My mother's
strong mind had not given way beneath even this affliction: her
spirit, though crushed, was not broken. Mary's wish was that I
should go back to Horton Lodge, and that our mother should come and
live with her and Mr. Richardson at the vicarage: she affirmed
that he wished it no less than herself, and that such an
arrangement could not fail to benefit all parties; for my mother's
Agnes Grey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: island to another in an open boat, were exposed to the
pernicious dews of the tropics, and simultaneously struck
down. The dates and places of their deaths (now before me)
would seem to indicate a more scattered and prolonged pursuit:
Hugh, on the 16th April 1774, in Tobago, within sight of
Trinidad; Alan, so late as 26th May, and so far away as `Santt
Kittes,' in the Leeward Islands - both, says the family Bible,
`of a fiver'(!). The death of Hugh was probably announced by
Alan in a letter, to which we may refer the details of the
open boat and the dew. Thus, at least, in something like the
course of post, both were called away, the one twenty-five,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: the provisional government. Of course, they enjoyed from the start the
confidence of the bourgeoisie and of the majority of the Constitutional
National Assembly. The Socialist elements of the Provisional Government
were promptly excluded from the Executive Committee which the Assembly
had elected upon its convening, and the party of the "National"
subsequently utilized the outbreak of the June insurrection to dismiss
this Executive Committee also, and thus rid itself of its nearest
rivals--the small traders' class or democratic republicans
(Ledru-Rollin, etc.). Cavaignac, the General of the bourgeois
republican party, who command at the battle of June, stepped into the
place of the Executive Committee with a sort of dictatorial power.
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