| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: QUEEN.
Go tell this heavy message to the king.--
[Exit Vaux.]
Ay me! what is this world! what news are these!
But wherefore grieve I at an hour's poor loss,
Omitting Suffolk's exile, my soul's treasure?
Why only, Suffolk, mourn I not for thee,
And with the southern clouds contend in tears,
Theirs for the earth's increase, mine for my sorrows?
Now get thee hence.
The king, thou know'st, is coming;
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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: Operational Plan of Medical Group (TR-7) for Nuclear Explosion 16 July
1945."] Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Atomic Energy Commission.
Los Alamos, NM.: LASL. LA-631(Deleted). June 13, 1947. 32 Pages.***
11. Hoffman, J. G. [Extracts from "Health Physics Report on
Radioactive Contamination throughout New Mexico Following the Nuclear
Explosion, Part A--Physics."] Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory,
Manhattan Engineer District. [Los Alamos, NM.] [1945.] 31 Pages.**
12. Lamont, Lansing. Day of TRINITY. New York, NY.: Atheneum.
1965. 331 Pages.
13. Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Public Relations Office. "Los
Alamos: Beginning of an Era, 1943-1945." Atomic Energy Commission.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: you; and you and many a one would be content to live seeing them only and
conversing with them without meat or drink, if that were possible--you only
want to look at them and to be with them. But what if man had eyes to see
the true beauty--the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed,
not clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the colours and
vanities of human life--thither looking, and holding converse with the true
beauty simple and divine? Remember how in that communion only, beholding
beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not
images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a
reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the
friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. Would that be an ignoble
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