| 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: reentry personnel came no closer than 180 meters to ground zero. Of
these personnel, the individual who received the highest exposure
during the three days was an Army sergeant who received 15 roentgens.
During the same period, two civilians received 10 roentgens and 7.5
roentgens, respectively. All other personnel received exposures of 5
roentgens or less (1; 3).
After the "Going-In Board" was disbanded on 19 July, permission to
enter the ground zero area had to be obtained from Dr. Bainbridge or
one of his deputies. Many scientists entered the ground zero area
after 19 July to retrieve instruments or to perform experiments. The
population of the TRINITY test site was diminishing, however, as the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: saw a red light before him, as when the felled trunks and
branches of a clearing have been set on fire, and throw up their
lurid blaze against the sky, at the hour of midnight. He paused,
in a lull of the tempest that had driven him onward, and heard
the swell of what seemed a hymn, rolling solemnly from a distance
with the weight of many voices. He knew the tune; it was a
familiar one in the choir of the village meeting-house. The verse
died heavily away, and was lengthened by a chorus, not of human
voices, but of all the sounds of the benighted wilderness pealing
in awful harmony together. Goodman Brown cried out, and his cry
was lost to his own ear by its unison with the cry of the desert.
Mosses From An Old Manse |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: at this work, while twelve continued at the site of the
beacon-house, at which every possible opportunity was
embraced, till this essential art of the operations should be
completed.
[Wednesday, 2nd Sept.]
The floating light's bell rung this morning at half-past
four o'clock, as a signal for the boats to be got ready, and
the landing took place at half-past five. In passing the
SMEATON at her moorings near the rock, her boat followed with
eight additional artificers who had come from Arbroath with
her at last trip, but there being no room for them in the
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