| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: first; and although there must have been nearly a hundred mongrel
celebrants in the throng, the police relied on their firearms
and plunged determinedly into the nauseous rout. For five minutes
the resultant din and chaos were beyond description. Wild blows
were struck, shots were fired, and escapes were made; but in the
end Legrasse was able to count some forty-seven sullen prisoners,
whom he forced to dress in haste and fall into line between two
rows of policemen. Five of the worshippers lay dead, and two severely
wounded ones were carried away on improvised stretchers by their
fellow-prisoners. The image on the monolith, of course, was carefully
removed and carried back by Legrasse.
Call of Cthulhu |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: grasses for a much-disheveled doll which a kindly disposed slave
had made for her a year or two before. The head of the doll was
rudely chipped from ivory, while the body was a rat skin stuffed
with grass. The arms and legs were bits of wood, perforated at
one end and sewn to the rat skin torso. The doll was quite
hideous and altogether disreputable and soiled, but Meriem
thought it the most beautiful and adorable thing in the whole
world, which is not so strange in view of the fact that it was
the only object within that world upon which she might bestow
her confidence and her love.
Everyone else with whom Meriem came in contact was, almost
The Son of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: invited the ghouls to drink with them in a tavern. Wine was produced
from one of those sinister bottles grotesquely carven from a single
ruby, and after that the ghouls found themselves prisoners on
the black galley as Carter had found himself. This time, however,
the unseen rowers steered not for the moon but for antique Sarkomand;
bent evidently on taking their captives before the High-Priest
Not To Be Described. They had touched at the jagged rock in the
northern sea which Inquanok's mariners shun, and the ghouls had
there seen for the first time the red masters of the ship; being
sickened despite their own callousness by such extremes of malign
shapelessness and fearsome odour. There, too, were witnessed the
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
