| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: his eyes for slumber to overtake him; but his blood pounded with too strong
desire, and as many times his eyes opened and he murmured wearily, "Wisht it
was sun-up." Sleep came to him in the end, but his eyes were open with the
first paling or the stars, and the gray of dawn caught him with breakfast
finished and climbing the hillside in the direction of the secret
abiding-place of Mr. Pocket.
The first cross-cut the man made, there was space for only three holes, so
narrow had become the pay-streak and so close was he to the fountainhead of
the golden stream he had been following for four days.
"Be ca'm, Bill; be calm," he admonished himself, as he broke ground for the
final hole where the sides of the "V" had at last come together in a point.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: breast. D'Alcacer appraised the remaining length of his cigarette
and went on in an equable tone through which pierced a certain
sadness:
"No, there are not many of them. And yet they are all. They
decorate our life for us. They are the gracious figures on the
drab wall which lies on this side of our common grave. They lead
a sort of ritual dance, that most of us have agreed to take
seriously. It is a very binding agreement with which sincerity
and good faith and honour have nothing to do. Very binding. Woe
to him or her who breaks it. Directly they leave the pageant they
get lost."
The Rescue |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, 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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