| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: "But the world would not be the same. You do not see that,
serang. Give the boat a good shove."
"Directly," said the old Malay and his face became impassive.
"Tuan knows when it is best to go, and death sometimes retreats
before a firm tread like a startled snake. Tuan should take a
follower with him, not a silly youth, but one who has lived--who
has a steady heart--who would walk close behind watchfully --and
quietly. Yes. Quietly and with quick eyes--like mine-- perhaps
with a weapon--I know how to strike."
Lingard looked at the wrinkled visage very near his own and into
the peering old eyes. They shone strangely. A tense eagerness was
The Rescue |
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: procurement, transportation, and communications
o The TR-2 Group, responsible for air-blast and earth-shock measurements
o The TR-3 (Physics) Group, responsible for experiments concerning
measurements of ionizing radiation
o The TR-4 Group, responsible for meteorology
o The TR-5 Group, responsible for spectrographic and photographic
measurements
o The TR-6 Group, responsible for the airblast-airborne condenser
gauges
o The TR-7 (Medical) Group, responsible for the radiological safety
and general health of the Project TRINITY participants.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne: of the primeval forest, to be his garden ground and homestead.
No written record of this dispute is known to be in existence.
Our acquaintance with the whole subject is derived chiefly from
tradition. It would be bold, therefore, and possibly unjust,
to venture a decisive opinion as to its merits; although it
appears to have been at least a matter of doubt, whether Colonel
Pyncheon's claim were not unduly stretched, in order to make it
cover the small metes and bounds of Matthew Maule. What greatly
strengthens such a suspicion is the fact that this controversy
between two ill-matched antagonists --at a period, moreover,
laud it as we may, when personal influence had far more weight
House of Seven Gables |
