| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: Mr. Wilding's indiscretion?"
"Your Grace has said it."
"`Slife! What an impudent rogue have we here!" cried the angry Duke,
who conceived that Richard was purposely dealing in effrontery. "Mr.
Trenchard, I do think we are wasting time. Be so good as to confound
them both with the truth of this matter."
"That letter," said Trenchard, "was delivered to them at the Hare and
Hounds, here at Taunton, by a gentleman who put up at the inn, and was
there joined by Mr. Westmacott and Sir Rowland Blake. They opened the
conversation with certain cant phrases very clearly intended as
passwords. Thus: the prisoners said to the messenger, as they seated
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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: a radiological safety monitor. Wearing protective clothing and
respirators, the two men were about 730 meters northwest of ground
zero photographing "JUMBO" from 1100 to 1200 hours. "JUMBO," shown in
figure 2-7, was a massive container built to contain the
high-explosive detonation of the TRINITY device and to allow recovery
of the fissionable material if the device failed to produce a nuclear
detonation. The plan to use "JUMBO," however, was abandoned when the
scientists concluded that a fairly large nuclear explosion was
certain. The container remained on the ground near the shot-tower
during the detonation. Both the photographer and the monitor received
an estimated radiation exposure between 0.5 and 1 roentgen (1; 7).
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: "Did not your master take any thought for you?" I said.
"No," said she, "he only cared to have a stylish turnout, as they call it;
I think he knew very little about horses; he left that to his coachman,
who told him I had an irritable temper! that I had not been well broken
to the check-rein, but I should soon get used to it; but he was not
the man to do it, for when I was in the stable, miserable and angry,
instead of being smoothed and quieted by kindness, I got only a surly word
or a blow. If he had been civil I would have tried to bear it.
I was willing to work, and ready to work hard too; but to be tormented
for nothing but their fancies angered me. What right had they
to make me suffer like that? Besides the soreness in my mouth,
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