| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: as I could. At last, regaining custody of my second son, Wingate,
I settled down with him in the Crane Street house and endeavoured
to resume my teaching - my old professorship having been kindly
offered me by the college.
I began work with the February, 1914,
term, and kept at it just a year. By that time I realized how
badly my experience had shaken me. Though perfectly sane - I hoped
- and with no flaw in my original personality, I had not the nervous
energy of the old days. Vague dreams and queer ideas continually
haunted me, and when the outbreak of the World War turned my mind
to history I found myself thinking of periods and events in the
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: Orientals, God Himself who was about to decide the fate of
Michael Strogoff. The people of Central Asia give the
name of "fal" to this practice. After having interpreted
the sense of the verse touched by the judge's finger, they
apply the sentence whatever it may be.
The Emir had let his finger rest on the page of the Koran.
The chief of the Ulemas then approached, and read in a
loud voice a verse which ended with these words, "And he
will no more see the things of this earth."
"Russian spy!" exclaimed Feofar-Kahn in a voice
trembling with fury, "you have come to see what is going
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: Armitage
had an idea that the alphabet might be something esoterically
used by certain forbidden cults which have come down from old
times, and which have inherited many forms and traditions from
the wizards of the Saracenic world. That question, however, he
did not deem vital; since it would be unnecessary to know the
origin of the symbols if, as he suspected, they were used as a
cipher in a modern language. It was his belief that, considering
the great amount of text involved, the writer would scarcely have
wished the trouble of using another speech than his own, save
perhaps in certain special formulae and incantations. Accordingly
The Dunwich Horror |
