| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: "Couldn't you?" He hesitated, perplexed. "Things are bad enough
to make it no shame. I tell you," he said, rapidly, "and I am not
a timid man, I may not be able to do much if you people don't
help me."
"You want me to pretend I am alarmed?" she asked, quickly.
"Aye, to pretend--as well you may. It's a lot to ask of you--who
perhaps never had to make-believe a thing in your life--isn't
it?"
"It is," she said after a time.
The unexpected bitterness of her tone struck Lingard with dismay.
"Don't be offended," he entreated. "I've got to plan a way out of
The Rescue |
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: area measuring 29 by 39 kilometers* in the northwest corner of the
Alamogordo Bombing Range. The Alamogordo Bombing Range was located in
a desert in south-central New Mexico called the Jornada del Muerto
("Journey of Death"). Figure 1-1 shows the location of the bombing
range. The site was chosen for its remote location and good weather
and because it was already owned by the Government. MED obtained
permission to use the site from the Commanding General of the Second
Air Force (Army Air Forces) on 7 September 1944 (12). Figure 1-2
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 =
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: stimulated by the known tenor of some of my reading - for the
consulltation of rare books at libraries cannot be effected secretly.
There is tangible proof - in the form of marginal notes - that
I went minutely through such things as the Comte d'Erlette's Cultes
des Goules, Ludvig Prinn's De Vermis Mysteriis, the Unaussprechlichen
Kulten of von Junzt, the surviving fragments of the puzzling Book
of Eibon, and the dreaded Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred.
Then, too, it is undeniable that a fresh and evil wave of underground
cult activity set in about the time of my odd mutation.
In the
summer of 1913 I began to display signs of ennui and flagging
Shadow out of Time |
