@@ -98,4 +98,73 @@ mod blade_runner {
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" ) ]
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resource bored( bored: bool ) {
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log ( error, bored) ;
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+ }
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+
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+ #[ doc(
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+ brief = "The Shunned House" ,
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+ desc = "
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+
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+ From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent. Sometimes it
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+ enters directly into the composition of the events, while sometimes it
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+ relates only to their fortuitous position among persons and
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+ places. The latter sort is splendidly exemplified by a case in the
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+ ancient city of Providence, where in the late forties Edgar Allan Poe
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+ used to sojourn often during his unsuccessful wooing of the gifted
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+ poetess, Mrs. Whitman. Poe generally stopped at the Mansion House in
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+ Benefit Street--the renamed Golden Ball Inn whose roof has sheltered
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+ Washington, Jefferson, and Lafayette--and his favorite walk led
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+ northward along the same street to Mrs. Whitman's home and the
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+ neighboring hillside churchyard of St. John's, whose hidden expanse of
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+ Eighteenth Century gravestones had for him a peculiar fascination.
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+
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+ " ) ]
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+ iface the_shunned_house {
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+ #[ doc(
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+ desc = "
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+
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+ Now the irony is this. In this walk, so many times repeated, the
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+ world's greatest master of the terrible and the bizarre was
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+ obliged to pass a particular house on the eastern side of the
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+ street; a dingy, antiquated structure perched on the abruptly
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+ rising side hill, with a great unkempt yard dating from a time
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+ when the region was partly open country. It does not appear that
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+ he ever wrote or spoke of it, nor is there any evidence that he
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+ even noticed it. And yet that house, to the two persons in
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+ possession of certain information, equals or outranks in horror
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+ the wildest fantasy of the genius who so often passed it
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+ unknowingly, and stands starkly leering as a symbol of all that is
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+ unutterably hideous.
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+
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+ " ,
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+ args(
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+ a =
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+ "A yard dating from a time when the region was partly
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+ open country"
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+ ) ) ]
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+ fn dingy_house( unkempt_yard : int) ;
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+
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+ #[ doc (
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+ desc = "
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+
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+ The house was--and for that matter still is--of a kind to attract
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+ the attention of the curious. Originally a farm or semi-farm
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+ building, it followed the average New England colonial lines of
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+ the middle Eighteenth Century--the prosperous peaked-roof sort,
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+ with two stories and dormerless attic, and with the Georgian
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+ doorway and interior panelling dictated by the progress of taste
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+ at that time. It faced south, with one gable end buried to the
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+ lower windows in the eastward rising hill, and the other exposed
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+ to the foundations toward the street. Its construction, over a
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+ century and a half ago, had followed the grading and straightening
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+ of the road in that especial vicinity; for Benefit Street--at
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+ first called Back Street--was laid out as a lane winding amongst
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+ the graveyards of the first settlers, and straightened only when
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+ the removal of the bodies to the North Burial Ground made it
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+ decently possible to cut through the old family plots.
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+
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+ " ,
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+ return = "A dingy house with an unkempt yard" ,
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+ failure = "Will fail if bodies are removed from premises"
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+ ) ]
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+ fn construct( ) -> bool;
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}
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