| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: messenger:
"Carry her to my house. Walk slowly and rest
whenever you wish. Don't wake her. Tell Aunt Abbie to
put her to bed in the south room overlooking the
valley. Don't leave her a minute, Betty. She's in the
first collapse of brain fever. You know what to do.
I'll be there in an hour. You come back here, John. I
want you."
The mountaineer nodded and seized one end of the
stretcher. The nurse took up the other and the Doctor
held wide the cabin door as they passed out.
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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: made to evacuate personnel as soon as the monitors completed their
initial survey. Because the cloud moved to the northeast, the south
shelter (the Control Point) was not completely evacuated, although
nonessential personnel were sent to the Base Camp. The west shelter
was emptied of all personnel except a searchlight crew spotlighting
the cloud as it moved away (1; 10).
Only at the north shelter did an emergency evacuation occur. About 12
minutes after the shot, a detection instrument indicated a rapid rise
in the radiation levels within the shelter. At the same time, a
remote ionization monitoring device detected a rapid increase in
radiation. Because of these two readings, all north shelter personnel
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: In his bosom no passion which once shaken wide
Might tug, till it snapped, that erect lofty pride?
Were those elements in him, which once roused to strife
Overthrow a whole nature, and change a whole life?
There are two kinds of strength. One, the strength of the river
Which through continents pushes its pathway forever
To fling its fond heart in the sea; if it lose
This, the aim of its life, it is lost to its use,
It goes mad, is diffused into deluge, and dies.
The other, the strength of the sea; which supplies
Its deep life from mysterious sources, and draws
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