| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: an ambassador of Fate."
"Possibly."
"And if that were the case would your honor condemn his
action?"
"It is not for me to judge. It rests between his conscience
and his God."
"But if your honor knew this man?"
"I neither know nor wish to know him. Provided Charles is
dead, it is the axe, not the man, we must thank."
"And yet, without the man, the king would have been
rescued."
Twenty Years After |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: of what a girl could mean to a man.
The other haunting intimations of change seemed to be elusively
blended with sensations--the heat and thrill of action, the sense
of something done and more to do, the utter vanishing of an old
weary hunt for he knew not what. Maybe it had been a hunt
for work, for energy, for spirit, for love, for his real self.
Whatever it might be, there appeared to be now some hope of
finding it.
The desert began to lighten. Gray openings in the border of shrubby
growths changed to paler hue. The road could be seen some rods
ahead, and it had become a stony descent down, steadily down.
Desert Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: shows the TRINITY site with its major installations.
* Throughout this report, surface distances are given in metric units.
The metric conversion factors include: 1 meter = 3.28 feet; 1 meter =
1.09 yards; and 1 kilometer = 0.62 miles. Vertical distances are
given in feet; altitudes are measured from mean sea level, while
heights are measured from surface level, unless otherwise noted.
Ground zero for the TRINITY detonation was at UTM coordinates
630266.** Three shelters, located approximately 9,150 meters (10,000
yards) north, west, and south of ground zero, were built for the
protection of test personnel and instruments. The shelters had walls
of reinforced concrete and were buried under a few feet of earth. The
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