| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: be moving rather swiftly for her, accustomed as she was to the
peaceful routine of the past four years.
"Get your hat. It's your life chance. Wait till you see your
name in two- foot electrics over the front of every big-time
house in the country. You've got music in you. Tie to me and
you're made." He turned to the woman beside him. "Isn't that
so, Rube?"
"Sure. Look at ME!" One would not have thought there could be
so much subtle vindictiveness in a fat blonde.
Sammett whipped out a watch. "Just three quarters of an hour.
Come on, girlie."
One Basket |
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: an estimated radiation exposure between 0.5 and 1 roentgen (1; 7).
The last party to "go in" on shot-day consisted of six men retrieving
neutron detectors. They entered the test area at 1430 hours. Three
of the men went to a point 730 meters south of ground zero to pull out
cables carrying neutron detectors located 550 meters south of ground
zero. The group wore protective clothing and respirators and spent
about 30 minutes in the area. The remaining three men drove as close
as 320 meters southwest of ground zero to retrieve neutron detectors.
They got out of their vehicle only once, at about 460 meters from
ground zero, and spent a total of about ten minutes making this trip
through the area. Each man's radiation exposure measured less than 1
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli: fatigued and overheated, he stood at the gate of Fucecchio to welcome
his men on their return from victory and personally thank them. He was
also on the watch for any attempt of the enemy to retrieve the
fortunes of the day; he being of the opinion that it was the duty of a
good general to be the first man in the saddle and the last out of it.
Here Castruccio stood exposed to a wind which often rises at midday on
the banks of the Arno, and which is often very unhealthy; from this he
took a chill, of which he thought nothing, as he was accustomed to
such troubles; but it was the cause of his death. On the following
night he was attacked with high fever, which increased so rapidly that
the doctors saw it must prove fatal. Castruccio, therefore, called
The Prince |
