The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: Personnel from the Medical Group had responsibility for issuing,
receiving, processing, and interpreting film badges for Project
TRINITY. The Site Monitoring Group compiled the film badge records
for both onsite and offsite personnel. Radiological safety personnel
and military police recorded the names and identification numbers of
individuals as they entered the test area. This information was
recorded in an entry logbook and on a personal exposure data card.
Upon leaving the test area, individuals returned their film badges to
the check station. When the film badges were processed and
interpreted, the reading was entered on the individuals exposure data
card. In this manner, the number of times an individual entered the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: a plentiful supply of fire. When night came on and brought sleep
with it, I was in the greatest fear lest my fire should be
extinguished. I covered it carefully with dry wood and leaves and
placed wet branches upon it; and then, spreading my cloak, I lay on
the ground and sank into sleep.
"It was morning when I awoke, and my first care was to visit the fire.
I uncovered it, and a gentle breeze quickly fanned it into a flame.
I observed this also and contrived a fan of branches, which roused
the embers when they were nearly extinguished. When night came
again I found, with pleasure, that the fire gave light as well
as heat and that the discovery of this element was useful to me
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: hearth, and the white heads. And let that suffice, for it is all
God offers."
"I have no delight in it," said she; but with that she sighed.
"The ways of life are straight like the grooves of launching," said
the man; and he took her by the hand.
"And what shall we do with the horseshoe?" quoth she.
"I will give it to your father," said the man; "and he can make a
kirk and a mill of it for me."
It came to pass in time that the Poor Thing was born; but memory of
these matters slept within him, and he knew not that which he had
done. But he was a part of the eldest son; rejoicing manfully to
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