The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: wings. The odour rising from the newly opened depths was intolerable,
and at length the quick-eared Hawkins thought he heard a nasty,
slopping sound down there. Everyone listened, and everyone was
listening still when It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly
squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway
into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness.
Poor
Johansen's handwriting almost gave out when he wrote of this.
Of the six men who never reached the ship, he thinks two perished
of pure fright in that accursed instant. The Thing cannot be described
- there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial
Call of Cthulhu |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: "Come quick! She's dying! Will's out of town. I tried to get
the doctor. The telephone wouldn't---- I saw your light! For
God's sake----"
Blanche Devine grasped the Young Wife's arm, opened the door, and
together they sped across the little space that separated the two
houses. Blanche Devine was a big woman, but she took the stairs
like a girl and found the right bedroom by some miraculous woman
instinct. A dreadful choking, rattling sound was coming from
Snooky's bed.
"Croup," said Blanche Devine, and began her fight.
It was a good fight. She marshaled her inadequate forces, made
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: supreme majesty of deity, is in English associated with an
ugly and ludicrous fiend, closely akin to that grotesque
Northern Devil of whom Southey was unable to think without
laughing. Such is the irony of fate toward a deposed deity.
The German name for idol--Abgott, that is, "ex-god," or
"dethroned god"--sums up in a single etymology the history of
the havoc wrought by monotheism among the ancient symbols of
deity. In the hospitable Pantheon of the Greeks and Romans a
niche was always in readiness for every new divinity who could
produce respectable credentials; but the triumph of monotheism
converted the stately mansion into a Pandemonium peopled with
Myths and Myth-Makers |