| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac: they indicate the guillotine, much as your friend aforesaid will
furnish you with the address of the money-lender, pointing you to one
of the hundred gates by which a man comes to the last refuge of the
destitute.
Yet nature has her freaks in the making of a man's mind; she indulges
herself and makes a few honest folk now and again, and now and then a
cashier.
Wherefore, that race of corsairs whom we dignify with the title of
bankers, the gentry who take out a license for which they pay a
thousand crowns, as the privateer takes out his letters of marque,
hold these rare products of the incubations of virtue in such esteem
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum: all the world, for we have ropes about our necks and are soon to be
hanged. To-morrow we shall not have even our flesh left, for the
crows will pick our bones."
"That is true," remarked Marvel, thoughtfully. "But, if I restore to
you the treasure, how will it benefit you, since you are about to die?"
"Must you really hang us?" asked the thief.
"Yes; I have decreed it, and you deserve your fate."
"Why?"
"Because you have wickedly taken from helpless people their property,
and committed many other crimes besides."
"But I have reformed! We have all reformed--have we not, brothers?"
The Enchanted Island of Yew |
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: o Two military policemen at each of the seven guard posts (indicated
by photographs such as figures 1-3 and 1-4).
2.2 DETONATION AND POSTSHOT ACTIVITIES
Because of bad weather, the Project TRINITY director (Dr. Bainbridge)
delayed the detonation, which had been scheduled for 0400 hours. By
0445, however, the forecast was better, and shot-time was set for
0530. This gave the scientists 45 minutes to arm the device and
prepare the instruments in the shelters. The final countdown began at
0510, and the device was detonated at 0529:45 Mountain War Time from
the Control Point in the south shelter (3; 12).
No one was closer than 9,150 meters to ground zero at the time of the
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