| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: from home will perhaps be as long as three years. But as yet all is
uncertain.'
This account is supplemented by the following letter, written by
Faraday to his friend De la Rive,[3] on the occasion of the death
of Mrs. Marcet. The letter is dated September 2, 1858:--
'My Dear Friend,--Your subject interested me deeply every way;
for Mrs. Marcet was a good friend to me, as she must have been to
many of the human race. I entered the shop of a bookseller and
bookbinder at the age of thirteen, in the year 1804, remained there
eight years, and during the chief part of my time bound books.
Now it was in those books, in the hours after work, that I found
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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: 619 Pages. (A99) AD/AO79 309.*
6. Groves, Leslie R., LTG, USA. Memorandum for Secretary of War,
[Subject: TRINITY]. [Washington, D.C.] 18 July 1945. 13 Pages.**
7. Groves, Leslie R., LTG, USA (Ret.). Now It Can Be Told: The Story
of the Manhattan Project. New York, NY.: Harper and Row. 1962. 444
Pages.
8. Headquarters, 9812th Technical Service Unit, Provisional
Detachment No. I (Company "B"). [Extract from: Daily Diary,
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.**
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: that day in the neighborhood of Lyng. And no one had met Edward
Boyne, either alone or in company, in any of the neighboring
villages, or on the road across the downs, or at either of the
local railway-stations. The sunny English noon had swallowed him
as completely as if he had gone out into Cimmerian night.
Mary, while every external means of investigation was working at
its highest pressure, had ransacked her husband's papers for any
trace of antecedent complications, of entanglements or
obligations unknown to her, that might throw a faint ray into the
darkness. But if any such had existed in the background of
Boyne's life, they had disappeared as completely as the slip of
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