| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: my philosophy can account for my continued distrust of the artist.
The notes in question were those descriptive of the dreams of
various persons covering the same period as that in which young
Wilcox had had his strange visitations. My uncle, it seems, had
quickly instituted a prodigiously far-flung body of inquires amongst
nearly all the friends whom he could question without impertinence,
asking for nightly reports of their dreams, and the dates of any
notable visions for some time past. The reception of his request
seems to have varied; but he must, at the very least, have received
more responses than any ordinary man could have handled without
a secretary. This original correspondence was not preserved, but
Call of Cthulhu |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: But we cannot hasten it.'
'I take ye, man,' whispered the chuckle-headed lad, with his red
hands tightening like a vice upon his knee. 'I take ye, man. Go
on! Oh, go on!'
The professor went on after a little pause. 'Why is the change
gradual?' he asked. 'Why does only a minute fraction of the
radium disintegrate in any particular second? Why does it dole
itself out so slowly and so exactly? Why does not all the
uranium change to radium and all the radium change to the next
lowest thing at once? Why this decay by driblets; why not a decay
en masse? . . . Suppose presently we find it is possible to
The Last War: A World Set Free |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: therefore 'distinct in its character and effects from the magnetic
and diamagnetic forms of force. On the other hand,' he continues,
'it has a most manifest relation to the crystalline structure of
bismuth and other bodies, and therefore to the power by which their
molecules are able to build up the crystalline masses.'
And here follows one of those expressions which characterize the
conceptions of Faraday in regard to force generally:--'It appears to
me impossible to conceive of the results in any other way than by a
mutual reaction of the magnetic force, and the force of the
particles of the crystals upon each other.' He proves that the
action of the force, though thus molecular, is an action at a
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