| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: allured by the sweet savour of the good things of this world at
Arlingford Castle, than deterred by his awe of the lady Matilda,
which nevertheless was so excessive, from his recollection of the twang
of the bow-string, that he never ventured to find her in the wrong,
much less to enjoin any thing in the shape of penance, as was
the occasional practice of holy confessors, with or without cause,
for the sake of pious discipline, and what was in those days
called social order, namely, the preservation of the privileges
of the few who happened to have any, at the expense of the swinish
multitude who happened to have none, except that of working and
being shot at for the benefit of their betters, which is obviously
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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: detonation, the four two-man teams established monitoring posts in
towns outside the test area. These towns were Nogal, Roswell, Fort
Sumner, and Socorro, all in New Mexico. The five-man team remained at
Guard Post 2 to assist in evacuation of nearby residences if the
TRINITY cloud drifted in that direction. These residences, the Fite
house and the homes in the town of Tokay, were 24 and 32 kilometers
northwest of ground zero, respectively. Since the cloud drifted to
the northeast, evacuation was not required. All offsite monitoring
teams were in radio or telephone contact with personnel at the Base
Camp (11).
Offsite monitoring teams in areas northeast of ground zero encountered
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: And of all my acquaintanceships the most intimate and, to tell
the truth, the most agreeable to me was my acquaintance with
Luganovitch, the vice-president of the circuit court. You both
know him: a most charming personality. It all happened just after
a celebrated case of incendiarism; the preliminary investigation
lasted two days; we were exhausted. Luganovitch looked at me and
said:
" 'Look here, come round to dinner with me.'
"This was unexpected, as I knew Luganovitch very little, only
officially, and I had never been to his house. I only just went
to my hotel room to change and went off to dinner. And here it
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