| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: is very upsetting for the stomach? A friend of mine could keep nothing
down for three weeks after exciting herself so."
I went to the bath shelter and was hosed.
As I dressed, someone tapped on the wall.
"Do you know," said a voice, "there is a man who LIVES in the Luft Bad next
door? He buries himself up to the armpits in mud and refuses to believe in
the Trinity."
The umbrellas are the saving grace of the Luft Bad. Now when I go, I take
my husband's "storm" gamp and sit in a corner, hiding behind it.
Not that I am in the least ashamed of my legs.
9. A BIRTHDAY.
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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: JRB Associates
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McLean, Virginia 22102
10. PROGRAM ELEMENT. PROJECT, TASK AREA & WORK UNIT NUMBERS:
Subtask U99QAXMK506-08
11. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS:
Director
Defense Nuclear Agency
Washington, D.C. 20305
12. REPORT DATE: 15 December 1982
13. NUMBER OF PAGES: 76
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: president's doors like Lazarus before the doors of Dives; receiving
not so much of his own taxes as the private secretary of the law
officer; and (in actual salary) little more than half as much as
his own chief of police. It is known besides that he has protested
in vain against the charge for Dr. Hagberg; it is known that he has
himself applied for an advance and been refused. Money is
certainly a grave subject on Mulinuu; but respect costs nothing,
and thrifty officials might have judged it wise to make up in extra
politeness for what they curtailed of pomp or comfort. One
instance may suffice. Laupepa appeared last summer on a public
occasion; the president was there and not even the president rose
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