| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: card. In this manner, the number of times an individual entered the
test area and his cumulative exposure history were recorded and
maintained (1).
4.2 GAMMA RADIATION EXPOSURE
The safety and monitoring report lists film badge readings for about
700 individuals who participated in Project TRINITY from 16 July 1945
to 1 January 1946 (1). This list includes both military and
nonmilitary personnel who were involved with the TRINITY operation and
postshot activities. However, records are available for only 44 of
the 144 to 160 members of the evacuation detachment (1). In addition,
some of these film badge listings may be for personnel who were only
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: few blankets and pillows, I suppose. As for me I walked quietly
downstairs on my way to the studio. I had a curious sensation that
I was acting in a preordained manner, that life was not at all what
I had thought it to be, or else that I had been altogether changed
sometime during the day, and that I was a different person from the
man whom I remembered getting out of my bed in the morning.
Also feelings had altered all their values. The words, too, had
become strange. It was only the inanimate surroundings that
remained what they had always been. For instance the studio. . . .
During my absence Senor Ortega had taken off his coat and I found
him as it were in the air, sitting in his shirt sleeves on a chair
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: Daisy to-morrow and invite her over here to tea."
"Oh, that's all right," he said carelessly. "I don't want to put you to
any trouble."
"What day would suit you?"
"What day would suit YOU?" he corrected me quickly. "I don't want to put
you to any trouble, you see."
"How about the day after to-morrow?" He considered for a moment. Then,
with reluctance:
"I want to get the grass cut," he said.
We both looked at the grass--there was a sharp line where my ragged lawn
ended and the darker, well-kept expanse of his began. I suspected that
The Great Gatsby |
