| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: thing you did that you probably did not observe yourself doing,
you drank rather more at your meals, you smoked a lot more. That
was your natural and proper response to the shock."
"Ah!" said the bishop, and brightened up.
"It was remarked by Tolstoy, I think, that few intellectual men
would really tolerate the world as it is if it were not for
smoking and drinking. Even novelists have their moments of
lucidity. Certainly these things soothe the restlessness in men's
minds, deaden their sceptical sensibilities. And just at the time
when you were getting most dislodged--you gave them up."
"And the sooner I go back to them the better," said the bishop
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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: 630266.** Three shelters, located approximately 9,150 meters (10,000
yards) north, west, and south of ground zero, were built for the
protection of test personnel and instruments. The shelters had walls
of reinforced concrete and were buried under a few feet of earth. The
south shelter was the Control Point for the test (12). The Base Camp,
which was the headquarters for Project TRINITY, was located
approximately 16 kilometers southwest of ground zero. The principal
buildings of the abandoned McDonald Ranch, where the active parts of
the TRINITY device were assembled, stood 3,660 meters southeast of
ground zero. Seven guard posts, which were simply small tents or
parked trucks like the ones shown in figures 1-3 and 1-4, dotted the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: Her brother watched, quietly, to see where it went.
It fluttered down to the floor, where he let it lie.
She came toward the window, pinching in her waist.
"Why don't you reproach me--abuse me?" she asked.
"I think I should feel better then. Why don't you tell me
that you hate me for bringing you here?"
"Because you would not believe it. I adore you, dear sister!
I am delighted to be here, and I am charmed with the prospect."
"I don't know what had taken possession of me. I had lost my head,"
Eugenia went on.
The young man, on his side, went on plying his pencil.
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