In the Walls of Eryx, H.P. Lovecraft and Kenneth Sterling "Prehistoric human invasions of Venus can be pretty well ruled out, so that one must turn to the idea of native construction. Did a forgotten race of highly evolved beings precede the man-lizards as masters of Venus?"
Household Gods, Aleister Crowley "ALICIA: Yes! in that shadow lurks a smile. See; from that jagged cloud Diana starts Like a deer from the brake; her silver splendour darts Through the crisp air to the grove upon the isle... Do you see her? Do you see her?"
Death, Percy Bysshe Shelley "First our pleasures die--and then Our hopes, and then our fears--and when These are dead, the debt is due, Dust claims dust -- and we die too."
At the Mountains of Madness, H. P. Lovecraft "Another race - a land race of beings shaped like octopi and probably corresponding to fabulous pre-human spawn of Cthulhu - soon began filtering down from cosmic infinity and precipitated a monstrous war which for a time drove the Old Ones wholly back to the sea - a colossal blow in view of the increasing land settlements."
The Shadow over Innsmouth, H. P. Lovecraft Part II "There was only one person in sight—an elderly man without what I had come to call the 'Innsmouth look'—and I decided not to ask him any of the questions which bothered me; remembering that odd things had been noticed in this hotel... One side of the cobblestoned open space was the straight line of the river; the other was a semicircle of slant-roofed brick buildings of about the 1800 period, from which several streets radiated away to the southeast, south, and southwest."
The Gnostic Bible (eds. Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer) From chapter "Early Wisdom Gospels", section "The Gospel of Thomas" "Yeshua said, I shall choose you as one from a thousand and as two from ten thousand and they will stand as a single one."
Laus Deo, Sydney Dobell "'He is not dead, but sleepeth,' said the Priest, and smooth'd his brow. 'Sleepeth?' said she, looking up, and the sun rose in her face! 'He must be better than I thought, for the sleep is very sound.'"
The Premature Burial, Edgar Allan Poe "In fact, I no longer dared trust myself out of the immediate presence of those who were aware of my proneness to catalepsy, lest, falling into one of my usual fits, I should be buried before my real condition could be ascertained. I entered into a series of elaborate precautions. Among other things, I had the family vault so remodelled as to admit of being readily opened from within."
Arrangement of Legend for castanets, bass and guitar Čeština: Hudební skladba Asturias (Leyenda) nebo pouze Leyenda španělského skladatele a klavíristy Isaaca Albénize (1860-1909). Эрзянь: Астурия (Валкортамонь невтема) эли Валкортамонь невтема — те седямонь сёрмадовксось, арсицязо Исаак Альбенис (1860-1909), испанонь седийсёрмадеесь, пианосоналксиесь. Kompozycja Asturias (Legenda) hiszpańskiego kompozytora i pianisty Isaaca Albéniza w aranżacji na kastaniety, bęben i gitarę.
Synthesized MIDI rendering of Guillaume Dufay's "Ave Regina", c.1450, Ox. Bod. Can. misc. 213 f.62, after facsimile in W. Apel, The Notation of Polyphonic Music (1960), facs. 26. Created with Lilypond.
Example of atonal music which avoids octaves, avoids major and minor triads, avoids more than three notes from the same diatonic scale, and avoids conjunct melodies/uses disjunct melodies. From Schoenberg's Klavierstucke, Op. 11, No. 1.
