| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: envisage the callous rationalism with which I set them aside.
But I was then convinced that young Wilcox had known of the older
matters mentioned by the professor.
II. The Tale of Inspector
Legrasse.
The older matters which had made the sculptor's dream
and bas-relief so significant to my uncle formed the subject of
the second half of his long manuscript. Once before, it appears,
Professor Angell had seen the hellish outlines of the nameless
monstrosity, puzzled over the unknown hieroglyphics, and heard
the ominous syllables which can be rendered only as "Cthulhu";
 Call of Cthulhu |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: It was true that Perry might do much with the con-
tents of the prospector, or iron mole, in which I had
brought down the implements of outer-world civiliza-
tion; but Perry was a man of peace. He could never weld
the warring factions of the disrupted federation. He
could never win new tribes to the empire. He would
fiddle around manufacturing gun-powder and trying to
improve upon it until some one blew him up with his
own invention. He wasn't practical. He never would get
anywhere without a balance-wheel--without some one
to direct his energies.
 Pellucidar |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac: or integrity. There everything is tolerated: the government and the
guillotine, religion and the cholera. You are always acceptable to
this world, you will never be missed by it. What, then, is the
dominating impulse in this country without morals, without faith,
without any sentiment, wherein, however, every sentiment, belief, and
moral has its origin and end? It is gold and pleasure. Take those two
words for a lantern, and explore that great stucco cage, that hive
with its black gutters, and follow the windings of that thought which
agitates, sustains, and occupies it! Consider! And, in the first
place, examine the world which possesses nothing.
The artisan, the man of the proletariat, who uses his hands, his
 The Girl with the Golden Eyes |