| 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: of the nuclear device were the primary activities engaging military
personnel.
FACT SHEET
Defense Nuclear Agency
Public Affairs Office
Washington, D C. 20305
Subject: Project TRINITY
Project TRINITY, conducted by the Manhattan Engineer District (MED),
was designed to test and assess the effects of a nuclear weapon. The
TRINITY nuclear device was detonated on a 100-foot tower on the
Alamogordo Bombing Range in south-central New Mexico at 0530 hours on
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: the violence of his returning passion made her seem to him actually
terrible. On her side Marie watched his apparently calm face while she
seemed to be observing the ball.
"It is fearfully hot here," she said to the count. "Take me to the
other side where I can breathe; I am stifling here."
And she motioned towards a small room where a few card-players were
assembled. The marquis followed her. He ventured to hope she had left
the crowd to receive him, and this supposed favor roused his passion
to extreme violence; for his love had only increased through the
resistance he had made to it during the last few days. Mademoiselle de
Verneuil still tormented him; her eyes, so soft and velvety for the
The Chouans |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Seraphita by Honore de Balzac: "The Spirit."
"What happened to her last night? Did you force your way past the
Vertumni standing sentinel? did you evade the Mammons?"
"Yes"; answered David, as though awaking from a dream.
The misty gleam of his eyes melted into a ray that came direct from
the soul and made it by degrees brilliant as that of an eagle, as
intelligent as that of a poet.
"What did you see?" asked Wilfrid, astonished at this sudden change.
"I saw Species and Shapes; I heard the Spirit of all things; I beheld
the revolt of the Evil Ones; I listened to the words of the Good.
Seven devils came, and seven archangels descended from on high. The
Seraphita |
