| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: duty, and Johansen shews ingenuous wonder at the charge of ruthlessness
brought against his party during the proceedings of the court
of inquiry. Then, driven ahead by curiosity in their captured
yacht under Johansen's command, the men sight a great stone pillar
sticking out of the sea, and in S. Latitude 47°9', W. Longitude
l23°43', come upon a coastline of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy
Cyclopean masonry which can be nothing less than the tangible
substance of earth's supreme terror - the nightmare corpse-city
of R'lyeh, that was built in measureless aeons behind history
by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars.
There lay great Cthulhu and his hordes, hidden in green slimy
Call of Cthulhu |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: which freed the Athenian from industrial barbarism, and enabled
him to become the great teacher and model of culture for the
human race, have disappeared forever.
Then the general standard of comfortable living, as already
hinted, has been greatly raised, and is still rising. What would
have satisfied the ancient would seem to us like penury. We have
a domestic life of which the Greek knew nothing. We live during a
large part of the year in the house. Our social life goes on
under the roof. Our houses are not mere places for eating and
sleeping, like the houses of the ancients. It therefore costs us
a large amount of toil to get what is called shelter for our
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: "Yes, yes," said La Ramee, "the matter concerns you, for you
will have the honor to serve us; and besides, however good
an appetite we may have and however great our thirst, there
will be something left on the plates and in the bottles, and
that something will be yours."
Grimaud bowed in thanks.
"And now," said La Ramee, "I must ask your highness's
pardon, but it seems that Monsieur de Chavigny is to be away
for a few days and he has sent me word that he has certain
directions to give me before his departure."
The duke tried to exchange a glance with Grimaud, but there
Twenty Years After |
