Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tell the truth, ever since I wrote the first paragraph of this desultory essay, I have been seeking to find a place to insert a portion of a dream I had a few nights ago. It may be wearisome, but I am bent on making it public. "The prophet that bath a dream let him tell it," says Jeremiah. You, my kind but tired reader, I advise to stop at the end of this sentence. For I warn you,- there are no angels, or robbers, or Frenchmen's calculus problems, or earthquakes to recommend my dream...
Thus it comes to pass that the Morgue is no longer a mere inanimate building. It becomes weirdly endowed with an awful personality. It is an explorer, it is an expounder, it is a preacher, it is a prophet, it is a stern moralist, it is a ghastly buffoon, it is a broken-hearted recording angel. Like some horrible ghoul, grinning and gibbering forever amid its dark mysteries, it stretches out awful hands to the wretched and the despairing throughout the vast, throbbing city, and whispers: "Come to me, come to me!" and they hear and shudder and turn cold...
...esteemed contemporary, the Advocate, has been indulging in a little prophesying on its own account, and the result has been rather startling in its nature. Among the many happenings which this much-gifted prophet foretells for us, one at least we modestly assert will prove incorrect. Others, it is very probable, may be no more correct than this, but of those we do not speak, we lay no claims to the mysterious art of the seer...
...prophet will ask, "comes such a radical change this year to upset all my calculations...
Gentle, though erring prophet, the answer is because the 22d of February will come this year upon Sunday, and as the song tells us that "Every day will be Sunday bye and bye," we can confidently look forward to the time when the birthday of the another of that beautiful American fiction. The tale of the little hatchet, will be regularly observed by the college authorities...