| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells: and as ready as a hospital rabbit for my fate. He emerged behind
the corner, for I heard him shout, "Prendick!" Then he began to run
after me, shouting things as he ran. This time running blindly,
I went northeastward in a direction at right angles to my
previous expedition. Once, as I went running headlong up the beach,
I glanced over my shoulder and saw his attendant with him.
I ran furiously up the slope, over it, then turning eastward along
a rocky valley fringed on either side with jungle I ran for perhaps
a mile altogether, my chest straining, my heart beating in my ears;
and then hearing nothing of Montgomery or his man, and feeling
upon the verge of exhaustion, I doubled sharply back towards
The Island of Doctor Moreau |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: They obtained samples by driving to within 460 meters of ground zero
in a tank specially fitted with rockets to which retrievable
collectors were fastened in order to gather soil samples from a
distance. This group made several sampling excursions on 16 and 17
July. The tank carried two personnel (a driver and a passenger) each
trip. No member of this party received a radiation exposure of more
than 1 roentgen (1).
Five other men from the earth-sampling group entered the ground zero
area in a second tank, lined with lead for radiation protection. The
tank, carrying the driver and one passenger, made five trips into the
ground zero area to retrieve soil samples on 16 and 17 July. On two
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: pause, "and so, when I'm fidgety, or have something on my mind, I
whistle. I hope you don't dislike it?"
"I love it," I asserted warmly. I did; when she pursed her lips
like that I was mad to kiss them.
"I saw you - at the station," she said' suddenly. "You - you were
in a hurry to go." I did not say anything, and after a pause she
drew a long breath. "Men are queer, aren't they?" she said, and
fell to whistling again.
After a while she sat up as if she had made a resolution. "I am
going to confess something," she announced suddenly. "You said,
you know, that you had ordered all this for something you - you
The Man in Lower Ten |
