| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Critias by Plato: passage from the sea up to this, which became a harbour, and leaving an
opening sufficient to enable the largest vessels to find ingress.
Moreover, they divided at the bridges the zones of land which parted the
zones of sea, leaving room for a single trireme to pass out of one zone
into another, and they covered over the channels so as to leave a way
underneath for the ships; for the banks were raised considerably above the
water. Now the largest of the zones into which a passage was cut from the
sea was three stadia in breadth, and the zone of land which came next of
equal breadth; but the next two zones, the one of water, the other of land,
were two stadia, and the one which surrounded the central island was a
stadium only in width. The island in which the palace was situated had a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: what it implied.
The body on the table had risen with a blind
and terrible groping, and we had heard a sound. I should not call
that sound a voice, for it was too awful. And yet its timbre was
not the most awful thing about it. Neither was its message --
it had merely screamed, "Jump, Ronald, for God’s sake, jump!"
The awful thing was its source.
For it had come from the large
covered vat in that ghoulish corner of crawling black shadows.
VI. The Tomb-Legions
Published July 1922 in Home Brew Vol.
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Crito by Plato: they do not meet with the usual fate of orphans, there will be small thanks
to you. No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to
persevere to the end in their nurture and education. But you appear to be
choosing the easier part, not the better and manlier, which would have been
more becoming in one who professes to care for virtue in all his actions,
like yourself. And indeed, I am ashamed not only of you, but of us who are
your friends, when I reflect that the whole business will be attributed
entirely to our want of courage. The trial need never have come on, or
might have been managed differently; and this last act, or crowning folly,
will seem to have occurred through our negligence and cowardice, who might
have saved you, if we had been good for anything; and you might have saved
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