| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: life as jest or mistake. Students have always thought conception
formed from morbid imaginative treatment of very ancient tropical
radiata. Also like prehistoric folklore things Wilmarth has spoken
of - Cthulhu cult appendages, etc.
"Vast field of study opened.
Deposits probably of late Cretaceous or early Eocene period, judging
from associated specimens. Massive stalagmites deposited above
them. Hard work hewing out, but toughness prevented damage. State
of preservation miraculous, evidently owing to limestone action.
No more found so far, but will resume search later. Job now to
get fourteen huge specimens to camp without dogs, which bark furiously
At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: is liable to great abuse; and, like the 'Deus ex machina,' explains
nothing. Hence he excuses himself for the employment of such a device,
and remarks that in foreign words there is still a principle of
correctness, which applies equally both to Greeks and barbarians.
(3) But the greater number of primary words do not admit of derivation
from foreign languages; they must be resolved into the letters out of which
they are composed, and therefore the letters must have a meaning. The
framers of language were aware of this; they observed that alpha was
adapted to express size; eta length; omicron roundness; nu inwardness; rho
accent rush or roar; lambda liquidity; gamma lambda the detention of the
liquid or slippery element; delta and tau binding; phi, psi, sigma, xi,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: indeed bear with me.
CO2 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have
espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin
to Christ.
CO2 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve
through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the
simplicity that is in Christ.
CO2 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have
not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not
received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well
bear with him.
King James Bible |
