| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: put in my hand, and nothing else. And they can fasten the other
ends of the threads where they please."
He raised his head, and turned towards his subordinate a long,
meagre face with the accentuated features of an energetic Don
Quixote.
"Now what is it you've got up your sleeve?"
The other stared. He stared without winking in a perfect
immobility of his round eyes, as he was used to stare at the
various members of the criminal class when, after being duly
cautioned, they made their statements in the tones of injured
innocence, or false simplicity, or sullen resignation. But behind
The Secret Agent |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: especially in my clothing, the like of which, of course, they
never had seen. They pulled and hauled upon me, and some of
them struck me; but for the most part they were not inclined
to brutality. It was only the hairier ones, who most closely
resembled the Sto-lu, who maltreated me. At last my captors led
me into a great cave in the mouth of which a fire was burning.
The floor was littered with filth, including the bones of many
animals, and the atmosphere reeked with the stench of human
bodies and putrefying flesh. Here they fed me, releasing my
arms, and I ate of half-cooked aurochs steak and a stew which
may have been made of snakes, for many of the long, round
The People That Time Forgot |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: America, and the way the great mountain chains are rolled and
shoved up - receives striking support from this uncanny source.
Maps evidently showing the Carboniferous world of an hundred
million or more years ago displayed significant rifts and chasms
destined later to separate Africa from the once continuous realms
of Europe (then the Valusia of primal legend), Asia, the Americas,
and the antarctic continent. Other charts - and most significantly
one in connection with the founding fifty million years ago of
the vast dead city around us - showed all the present continents
well differentiated. And in the latest discoverable specimen -
dating perhaps from the Pliocene Age - the approximate world of
At the Mountains of Madness |
