| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: dead by that time you can go abroad.'
'Go abroad?' repeated John eagerly. 'Why shouldn't I go at once?
Tell 'em that Joseph and I are seeing life in Paris.'
'Nonsense,' said Morris.
'Well, but look here,' said John; 'it's this house, it's such a
pig-sty, it's so dreary and damp. You said yourself that it was
damp.'
'Only to the carpenter,' Morris distinguished, 'and that was to
reduce the rent. But really, you know, now we're in it, I've seen
worse.'
'And what am I to do?' complained the victim. 'How can I
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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: Provisional Detachment No. 1 (Company "B"), 9812th Technical Service
Unit.] Army Corps of Engineers, Department of War. [Santa Fe, NM.]
14 July 1945. 2 Pages.**
9. Headquarters, Special Service Detachment. Supplemental Special
Guard Orders, with Appendix. Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory,
Manhattan Engineer District. [Alamogordo, NM.] 14 July 1945. 4
Pages.**
10. Hempelmann, L. H., M.D. [Extracts from: "Preparation and
Operational Plan of Medical Group (TR-7) for Nuclear Explosion 16 July
1945."] Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Atomic Energy Commission.
Los Alamos, NM.: LASL. LA-631(Deleted). June 13, 1947. 32 Pages.***
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: who does not dare speak now." None replied. "Is there none?"
"And it would not betray you should I cast my sword at thy feet,
it had been done ere this," said one in low tones pregnant with
suppressed feeling.
"And I!" "And I!" "And I!" chorused the others in vibrant
whispers.
CHAPTER XVII
A PLAY TO THE DEATH
CLEAR and sweet a trumpet spoke across The Fields of Jetan. From
The High Tower its cool voice floated across the city of Manator
and above the babel of human discords rising from the crowded
The Chessmen of Mars |
