Fame and Power! (in Contests)

"Or, if you shall so prefer to choose, a new province of knowledge and new avenues to fame and power shall be laid open to you, here, in this room, upon the instant: and your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan."

Dr Jekyl and Mr. Hyde?

Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Dr. Lanyon's Narrative. Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".

Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone

Dr. Lanyon's Narrative. Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Chapter nine

And now," said he, "to settle what remains. Will you be
wise? will you be guided? will you suffer me to take this glass in
my hand and to go forth from your house without further parley? or
has the greed of curiosity too much command of you? Think before
you answer, for it shall be done as you decide. As you decide,
you shall be left as you were before, and neither richer nor
wiser, unless the sense of service rendered to a man in mortal
distress may be counted as a kind of riches of the soul. Or, if
you shall so prefer to choose, a new province of knowledge and new
avenues to fame and power shall be laid open to you, here, in this
room, upon the instant; and your sight shall be blasted by a
prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan."

You're all correct, but you haven't won just yet. It's hard to grab Fame and Power!

"Sir," said I, affecting a coolness that I was far from truly
possessing, "you speak enigmas, and you will perhaps not wonder
that I hear you with no very strong impression of belief. But I
have gone too far in the way of inexplicable services to pause
before I see the end."

"It is well," replied my visitor. "Lanyon, you remember your
vows: what follows is under the seal of our profession. And now,
you who have so long been bound to the most narrow and material
views, you who have denied the virtue of transcendental medicine,
you who have derided your superiors--behold!"

Will you be wise? will you be guided? will you suffer me to take this glass in my hand and to go forth from your house without further parley? or has the greed of curiosity too much command of you? Think before you answer, for it shall be done as you decide.

Plus the above.

What he told me in the next hour, I cannot bring my mind to set on paper. I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer. My life is shaken to its roots; sleep has left me; the deadliest terror sits by me at all hours of the day and night; and I feel that my days are numbered, and that I must die; and yet I shall die incredulous. As for the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I can not, even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror. I will say but one thing, Utterson, and that (if you can bring your mind to credit it) will be more than enough. The creature who crept into my house that night was, on Jekyll's own confession, known by the name of Hyde and hunted for in every corner of the land as the murderer of Carew.

He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp. A cry followed; he reeled, staggered, clutched at the table and held on, staring with injected eyes, gasping with open mouth; and as I looked there came, I thought, a change--he seemed to swell-- his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter--and the next moment, I had sprung to my feet and leaped back against the wall, my arms raised to shield me from that prodigy, my mind submerged in terror.

I was so far in my reflections when, as I have
said, a side light began to shine upon the
subject from the laboratory table. I began to
perceive more deeply than it has ever yet
been stated, the trembling immateriality, the
mistlike transience, of this seemingly so
solid body in which we walk attired. Certain
agents I found to have the power to shake
and pluck back that fleshly vestment, even
as a wind might toss the curtains of a
pavilion.

He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders. The mixture, which was at first of a reddish hue, began, in proportion as the crystals melted, to brighten in colour, to effervesce audibly, and to throw off small fumes of vapour. Suddenly and at the same moment, the ebullition ceased and the compound changed to a dark purple, which faded again more slowly to a watery green. My visitor, who had watched these metamorphoses with a keen eye, smiled, set down the glass upon the table, and then turned and looked upon me with an air of scrutiny.

"Or, if you shall so prefer to choose, a new province of knowledge and new avenues to fame and power shall be laid open to you, here, in this room, upon the instant: and your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan."

Satanism?

He came back from the dead and escaped satan?

books... hehehehe guessing is fun

If you want you will have fame and power?

In the room is something that could change his life forever and will defeat satan?

... are overrated?

I think if means that your power and fame will be there right now by the will of satan but another person that is better than you will shatter your dreams

I'm shocked that no one has gotten this. It's really quite simple. I just need a name...

Dr. Lanyon
Dr. Henry Jekyll
Satan
Mr. Edward Hyde

Which is it, Lukey?

Mr. Utterson

Satan!!!!

Dr. Lanyon

Mr. Edward Hyde

Satan

Dr. Henry Jekyll

Mr. Edward Hyde

fast internet user...I hate you :P

You guys suck. Ok, I need an elaboration. You've gotten who said this particular quote, but who did he say it to. And then you've got the entire answer.

Mr. Edward Hyde said it to Dr. Lanyon

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You're lucky you got that much with all the hints I had to give away.

John Utterson

Haha, I just looked when you said names and things, and took it from there, didn't see anything before it

Dr.Lanyon to Mr Edward Hyde

Dr. Lanyon didn't say that! Edward Hyde did! Get it straight!

I KNOW!! :P