| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: you might as well talk to some purpose by telling me what
you know about yourself."
"Oh, what I KNOW about myself isn't really worth telling,"
said Anne eagerly. "If you'll only let me tell you
what I IMAGINE about myself you'll think it ever so much
more interesting."
"No, I don't want any of your imaginings. Just you stick
to bald facts. Begin at the beginning. Where were you
born and how old are you?"
"I was eleven last March," said Anne, resigning herself
to bald facts with a little sigh. "And I was born in
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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: calculations of the anticipated dangers from blast pressure, thermal
radiation, and ionizing radiation. The TR-7 Group, also known as the
Medical Group, was responsible for radiological safety. A limit of 5
roentgens of exposure during a two-month period was established.
The Site and Offsite Monitoring Groups were both part of the Medical
Group. The Site Monitoring Group was responsible for equipping
personnel with protective clothing and instruments to measure
radiation exposure, monitoring and recording personnel exposure
according to film badge readings and time spent in the test area, and
providing for personnel decontamination. The Offsite Monitoring Group
surveyed areas surrounding the test site for radioactive fallout. In
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: to put up on demand, otherwise they could not do business on Sundays,
nor have any gambling at all. In the same way Scully had all the jobs
in the fire department at his disposal, and all the rest of the city
graft in the stockyards district; he was building a block of flats
somewhere up on Ashland Avenue, and the man who was overseeing it for
him was drawing pay as a city inspector of sewers. The city inspector
of water pipes had been dead and buried for over a year, but somebody was
still drawing his pay. The city inspector of sidewalks was a barkeeper
at the War Whoop Cafe--and maybe he could make it uncomfortable for any
tradesman who did not stand in with Scully!
Even the packers were in awe of him, so the men said. It gave them
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