| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: purpose:
There is no uncleanness in facts. The uncleanness is in the
glamour, in the secret imagination. It is in hints, half-truths,
and suggestions the threat to life lies.
This play puts the horrible truth in so living a way, with such
clean, artistic force, that the mind is impressed as it could
possibly be impressed in no other manner.
Best of all, it is the physician who dominates the action. There
is no sentimentalizing. There is no weak and morbid handling of
the theme. The doctor appears in his ideal function, as the
modern high-priest of truth. Around him writhe the victims of
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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: Post 8, the only access to the ground zero area from the Base Camp,
ensured that no unauthorized individuals entered the area (9; 12).
At 0100 hours on 16 July, military policemen from Guard Posts 3, 5, 6,
and 7 met to compare their logs of personnel authorized to be in the
ground zero area. The guards then traveled along the access roads to
clear out all project personnel. As individuals left for their
assigned shelters or stations, their departures from the test area
were recorded in the military police logs. By 0200 the area sweep was
completed, and the military police went to their shelters and
stations. A final check of personnel was made in each shelter (3; 9;
12).
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: 'After that they tried to board us no more, though they shot at us
with arrows, wounding one man. The captain called to us to lay
down our bows and take cover behind the bulwarks, for by now the
sails began to draw. Then de Garcia stood up in the boat and
cursed me and my wife.
'"I will find you yet," he screamed, with many Spanish oaths and
foul words. "If I must wait for twenty years I will be avenged
upon you and all you love. Be assured of this, Luisa de Garcia,
hide where you will, I shall find you, and when we meet, you shall
come with me for so long as I will keep you or that shall be the
hour of your death."
Montezuma's Daughter |
