You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
But the last word changed in his mouth, from his dreadful hypnotic grief and pain, to a scream of simply infernal terror. And, suddenly, a horrible mocking voice roared out in the room, from Baumoff's chair:
'Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani!'
Do you understand, the voice was not Baumoff's at all. It was not a voice of despair; but a voice sneering in an incredible, bestial, monstrous fashion. In the succeeding silence, as I stood in an ice of fear, I knew that Baumoff no longer gasped. The room was absolutely silent, the most dreadful and silent place in all this world. Then I bolted; caught my foot, probably in the invisible edge of the hearth-rug, and pitched headlong into a blaze of internal brain-stars. After which, for a very long time, certainly some hours, I knew nothing of any kind.
I came back into this Present, with a dreadful headache oppressing me, to the exclusion of all else. But the Darkness had dissipated. I rolled over on to my side, and saw Baumoffand forgot even the pain in my head. He was leaning forward towards me: his eyes wide open, but dull. His face was enormously swollen, and there was, somehow, something beastly about him. He was dead, and the belt about him and the chair-back, alone prevented him from falling forward on to me. His tongue was thrust out of one corner of his mouth. I shall always remember how he looked. He was leering, like a human-beast, more than a man.
I edged away from him, across the floor; but I never stopped looking at him, until I had got to the other side of the door, and closed between us. Of course, I got my balance in a bit, and went back to him; but there was nothing I could do.
"Baumoff died of heart-failure, of course, obviously! I should never be so foolish as to suggest to any sane jury that, in his extraordinary, self-hypnotised, defenseless condition, he was "entered" by some Christ-apeing Monster of the Void. I've too much respect for my own claim to be a common-sensible man, to put forward such an idea with seriousness! Oh, I know I may seem to speak with a jeer; but what can I do but jeer at myself and all the world, when I dare not acknowledge, even secretly to myself, what my own thoughts are. Baumoff did, undoubtedly die of heart-failure; and, for the rest, how much was I hypnotised into believing. Only, there was over by the far wall, where it had been shaken down to the floor from a solidly fastened-up bracket, a little pile of glass that had once formed a piece of beautiful Venetian glassware. You remember that I heard something fall, when the room shook. Surely the room did shake? Oh, I must stop thinking. My head goes round.
"The explosive the papers are talking about. Yes, that's Baumoff's; that makes it all seem true, doesn't it? They had the darkness at Berlin, after the explosion. There is no getting away from that. The Government know only that Baumoff's formulae is capable of producing the largest quantity of gas, in the shortest possible time. That, in short, it is ideally explosive. So it is; but I imagine it will prove an explosive, as I have already said, and as experience has proved, a little too impartial in its action for it to create enthusiasm on either side of a battlefield. Perhaps this is but a mercy, in disguise; certainly a mercy, if Baumoff's theories as to the possibility of disorganising matter, be anywhere near to the truth.
"I have thought sometimes that there might be a more normal explanation of the dreadful thing that happened at the end. Baumoff may have ruptured a blood-vessel in the brain, owing to the enormous arterial pressure that his experiment induced; and the voice I heard and the mockery and the horrible expression and leer may have been nothing more than the immediate outburst and expression of the natural "obliqueness" of a deranged mind, which so often turns up a side of a man's nature and produces an inversion of character, that is the very complement of his normal state. And certainly, poor Baumoff's normal religious attitude was one of marvellous reverence and loyalty towards the Christ.
"Also, in support of this line of explanation, I have frequently observed that the voice of a person suffering from mental derangement is frequently wonderfully changed, and has in it often a very repellant and inhuman quality. I try to think that this explanation fits the case. But I can never forget that room. Never."
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
^^^ is that real?
Also, I might get in bed soon, since it's about time for my family to get up. The difference is almost entirely academic--either way I'll be under a bunch of blankets constantly falling asleep then waking up and using hte internet; the only difference is where.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Oh, I get it, because I said "United Pony Network"!
You know, before you pointed it out to me, I never picked ump on the triangle representing a mountain. I had figured it was just three simple shapes.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I picked up on the triangle referring to the Paramount mountain on my own, but "circle = unity" and "square = television set" were explained to me elsewhere, probably on the website of whoever designed it.
That logo has a certain child-friendliness to it, though UPN was never all that keen on targeting kids (their kids block was played down in order to avoid competing with their corporate cousin Nickelodeon; oddly, when they tried to get Nickelodeon to provide programming for the block, they failed because Nickelodeon could not provide UPN with the desired amount of programming until 2000, and UPN wanted it by the fall of 1999. Because of this, they got Disney to do a block called "One Too", an extension of One Saturday Morning and essentially a renamed Disney Afternoon.)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
How a human being could have attempted such a book as the present without committing suicide before he had finished a dozen chapters, is a mystery. It is a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The furnace-fixing guy is supposed to be here any minute now
It will feel good to be in a house that's not 48 degrees
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
man, coming up with troll names is hard
"AVENUE" is 6 letters, but "CENTRAL" is one letter too many
i mean, what should i use instead? "MIDDLE"? "CENTIE"? "CENTER"?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know, I woke up this morning with the name "Professor Mori-Rarity" in my head.
I am gonna ask you questions. And every time you don't give me answers, I'm gonna cut something off. And I promise you, they will be things you will miss.
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You know, before you pointed it out to me, I never picked ump on the triangle representing a mountain.
I had figured it was just three simple shapes.
That logo has a certain child-friendliness to it, though UPN was never all that keen on targeting kids (their kids block was played down in order to avoid competing with their corporate cousin Nickelodeon; oddly, when they tried to get Nickelodeon to provide programming for the block, they failed because Nickelodeon could not provide UPN with the desired amount of programming until 2000, and UPN wanted it by the fall of 1999. Because of this, they got Disney to do a block called "One Too", an extension of One Saturday Morning and essentially a renamed Disney Afternoon.)
it's a review of Wuthering Heights from Graham's Lady Magazine