| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: lull of the wind, I issued from a fir-wood where I had long been
wandering, and found, not the looked-for village, but another
marish bottom among rough-and-tumble hills. For some time past I
had heard the ringing of cattle-bells ahead; and now, as I came out
of the skirts of the wood, I saw near upon a dozen cows and perhaps
as many more black figures, which I conjectured to be children,
although the mist had almost unrecognisably exaggerated their
forms. These were all silently following each other round and
round in a circle, now taking hands, now breaking up with chains
and reverences. A dance of children appeals to very innocent and
lively thoughts; but, at nightfall on the marshes, the thing was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: for him was the beginning and the end of life. With eyes shut
tight, his teeth hard set, he tried in a great effort of
passionate will to keep his hold on that vision of supreme
delight. In vain! His heart grew heavy as the figure of Nina
faded away to be replaced by another vision this time--a vision
of armed men, of angry faces, of glittering arms--and he seemed
to hear the hum of excited and triumphant voices as they
discovered him in his hiding-place. Startled by the vividness of
his fancy, he would open his eyes, and, leaping out into the
sunlight, resume his aimless wanderings around the clearing. As
he skirted in his weary march the edge of the forest he glanced
Almayer's Folly |
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: North Shelter Road ran into Broadway. The west shelter monitor and a
military policeman blocked Vatican Road where it intersected Broadway.
The south shelter monitor and military police set up a roadblock where
Broadway intersected Pennsylvania Avenue (1).
The monitor assigned to Guard Post 4 surveyed the Mockingbird Gap area
to ensure that it was safe for the guards to return to their post.
This position controlled access to the McDonald Ranch Road, which led
directly to ground zero (1).
At 0540 hours, the chief monitor departed from the Base Camp with a
military policeman to monitor the entire length of Broadway. They
first checked the roadblock at Pennsylvania Avenue and Broadway. Next
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