BBS in a Box 7/BBS in a Box - Macintosh - Volume VII (BBS in a Box) (January 1993).iso/Files/Hyper/I-J/If Monks had Macs....cpt/If Monks had Macs.../Meat & Conversation/card_26525.txt

Text File | 1992-02-09 | 4KB | 141 lines

-- card: 26525 from stack: in
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-- name: devil
----- HyperTalk script -----
on closeCard
  if visible of cd fld "Note" is true then
    send mouseUp to cd btn "Note on Cross"
  end if
end closeCard


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----- HyperTalk script -----
on mouseUp
  set cursor to 3
  visual wipe right
  go cd title
  visual scroll right slow
  go cd over
  visual wipe right
  go cd folded
  visual wipe left
  go cd "The Devil's Bedroom"
end mouseUp



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----- HyperTalk script -----
On mouseUp
  send mouseUp to cd btn "note on cross"
end mouseUp


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----- HyperTalk script -----
on mouseUp
  cleanScreen
  lock screen
  set visible of cd fld "note" to not visible of cd fld "note"
  unlock screen with dissolve
end mouseUp


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-- part contents for background part 2
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monk to mark the way to the
monastery of St. Sophia....”






To this day, I can't say
whether it was the meat,
the twilight conversation
of a Russian monk, or whether it was indeed the work of our Ancient Enemy, but the room suddenly dissolved away and I  found myself on a narrow broken path scratched into the face of an immense cliff.  Below me, an abyss into which everything I had ever seen or dreamt of on this earth would have disappeared without a trace; above me, four   fantastic teetering towers of stone...

-- part contents for background part 1
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“They say the devil
spins a dream-bed  of
lies among those rocks
for every monk...

“St. Dimitri writes
of   inching  along
a narrow ledge that
cleaves to the edge
of the cliff; to his right the
mountain  plunges  down
as if  into the  abyss itself,
and to his left the wild
heaps of rock not the
wo rk of our Lord,
but the design of
the Devil himself.

“So many were led astray along that path that  five  stone crosses,  each taller than a man, were designed by  an Irish

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[translator's. note:    Brother Andrew seems not to have known or cared what these Celtic Crosses looked like, but added a new and different cross to his journal to mark each milestone in his  “journey”.  A sketch of one the actual Celtic Crosses as it now stands  is shown here.
For this translation I have carefully reproduced the five crosses our author drew more than 600 years ago to mark the successes of his  “interior adventure” .]

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[Click on the Cross for an
  explanation of how it is used in this manuscipt.]