| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: porter's horror-struck face, my own excitement and the slightly
gaping curtains of lower ten. He reached for the darky's pulse and
pulled out an old-fashioned gold watch.
"Hm! Only fifty! What's the matter? Had a shock?" he asked
shrewdly.
"Yes," I answered for the porter. "We've both had one. If you are
a doctor, I wish you would look at the man in the berth across,
lower ten. I'm afraid it's too late, but I'm not experienced in
such matters."
Together we opened the curtains, and the doctor, bending down, gave
a comprehensive glance that took in the rolling head, the relaxed
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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: covering and respirators for the first three days after the
detonation. Figure 2-6 shows two Project TRINITY personnel wearing
protective clothing (1).
On the day of the shot, five parties entered the ground zero area.
One party consisted of eight members of the earth-sampling group.
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
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: counted wrong; but as another day passed, he gave up all hope--
and was sunk in the depths of despair, when one morning after
breakfast a keeper came to him with the word that his time was up
at last. So he doffed his prison garb, and put on his old fertilizer
clothing, and heard the door of the prison clang behind him.
He stood upon the steps, bewildered; he could hardly believe that
it was true,--that the sky was above him again and the open street
before him; that he was a free man. But then the cold began to
strike through his clothes, and he started quickly away.
There had been a heavy snow, and now a thaw had set in; fine sleety
rain was falling, driven by a wind that pierced Jurgis to the bone.
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