| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: when the device was detonated (1; 4; 8-10; 13; 15):
o 99 shelter occupants at shelters 9,150 meters north, south, and west
of ground zero
o 144 to 160 officers and enlisted men of the evacuation detachment,
located 14 kilometers northwest of ground zero near Guard Post 2
o Five radiological safety monitors assigned to the evacuation
detachment to perform offsite monitoring of nearby towns and
residences
o One radiological safety monitor assigned to Guard Post 4
o Two military policemen at each of the seven guard posts (indicated
by photographs such as figures 1-3 and 1-4).
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: --she would set all in train to become rich by securing a part of
Pons' collection. Nor for some time had she any other thought than the
combination of various plans to this end. The faculty of self-
concentration seen in rough, uneducated persons, explained on a
previous page, the reserve power accumulated in those whose mental
energies are unworn by the daily wear and tear of social life, and
brought into action so soon as that terrible weapon the "fixed idea"
is brought into play,--all this was pre-eminently manifested in La
Cibot. Even as the "fixed idea" works miracles of evasion, and brings
forth prodigies of sentiment, so greed transformed the portress till
she became as formidable as a Nucingen at bay, as subtle beneath her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: I came only just
short of echoing his cry myself; for I had seen those primal sculptures,
too, and had shudderingly admired the way the nameless artist
had suggested that hideous slime coating found on certain incomplete
and prostrate Old Ones - those whom the frightful Shoggoths had
characteristically slain and sucked to a ghastly headlessness
in the great war of resubjugation. They were infamous, nightmare
sculptures even when telling of age-old, bygone things; for Shoggoths
and their work ought not to be seen by human beings or portrayed
by any beings. The mad author of the Necronomicon had nervously
tried to swear that none had been bred on this planet, and that
At the Mountains of Madness |
