| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: Broadway controlled entry into the area. Guard Posts 3, 5, 6, and 7
were within 3,000 meters of ground zero and thus remained unmanned.
At the south shelter, the Medical Group set up a "going-in" station
where personnel were required to stop to put on protective clothing
(coveralls, booties, caps, and cotton gloves) and pick up monitoring
equipment before entering the ground zero area. Since it was not
known how much radioactive material might be suspended in the air, all
personnel entering the ground zero area wore complete protective
covering and respirators for the first three days after the
detonation. Figure 2-6 shows two Project TRINITY personnel wearing
protective clothing (1).
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "I am tired, Father," said the outlaw as he threw
himself upon his accustomed bench. "Naught but sor-
row and death follow in my footsteps. I and all my
acts be accurst, and upon those I love the blight fall-
eth."
"Alter thy ways, my son; follow my advice ere it be
too late. Seek out a new and better life in another
country and carve thy future into the semblance of
glory and honor."
"Would that I might, my friend," answered Norman
of Torn. "But hast thou thought on the consequences
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: benefactor. I wanted something more than mere companionship
could give me, and where was I to look for it? Among the
scattered remnants of those that had been my gay friends of yore?
Alas!
"Many a lad I loved was dead,
And many a lass grown old."
Besides, all community of ties between us had ceased to exist,
and such of former friends as were still in the world held their
life in a different tenor from what I did.
Some had become misers, and were as eager in saving sixpence as
ever they had been in spending a guinea. Some had turned
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