| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: provoked by the same: then this memory would recollect that one
of these events occurred during the celebrated 'hard winter'
of such and such a year, and a minute description of that winter
would follow, along with the names of people who were frozen to death,
and statistics showing the high figures which pork and hay went up to.
Pork and hay would suggest corn and fodder; corn and fodder would
suggest cows and horses; cows and horses would suggest the circus
and certain celebrated bare-back riders; the transition from
the circus to the menagerie was easy and natural; from the elephant
to equatorial Africa was but a step; then of course the heathen
savages would suggest religion; and at the end of three or four hours'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy: proud of our ancient heritage. . .and unwilling to witness or permit the slow
undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed,
and to which we are committed today. . .at home and around the world.
Let every nation know. . .whether it wishes us well or ill. . .
that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship,
support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and
the success of liberty. This much we pledge. . .and more.
To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share:
we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United. . .there is
little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures.
Divided. . .there is little we can do. . .for we dare not meet
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: renewed every day. It becomes stagnant and populous. The deeper tanks
seldom get dry;-- the rainfall at Tokyo being heavy enough to keep them
partly filled during nine months out of the twelve.
Well, it is in these tanks and flower-vessels that mine enemies are born:
they rise by millions from the water of the dead;-- and, according to
Buddhist doctrine, some of them may be reincarnations of those very dead,
condemned by the error of former lives to the condition of Jiki-ketsu-gaki,
or blood-drinking pretas... Anyhow the malevolence of the Culex fasciatus
would justify the suspicion that some wicked human soul had been compressed
into that wailing speck of a body...
Now, to return to the subject of kerosene-oil, you can exterminate the
Kwaidan |
