Don Q put his lanky frame over the motorcycle seat. The huge machine seemed to make Don Q look even smaller. "I did this before, a long, long time ago." Reaching down to his fee, he turned outward a hinged peg. He put his hand back onto the handle bar and stood. The peg, and the lever arm it was attached to moved down...nothing. Don Q frowned.
"What is wrong?"
"Keys," Don Q said. "We need keys. Quick Seventy, go back to the house. We must find the keys."
Tearing open the boxes, Seventy found a polished box with no apparent opening. Shaking it he heard a ringing sound. "Keys," he said.
"The box," Don said when confronted with the mysterious box,"is a puzzle. We must move the walls in a certain way and it will yield its contents."
As he worked with hidden panels, moving them slightly back and forth in series, attempting to work out the code.
"We could break it open," Seventy suggested.
"Break it open? No, that would destroy the magic."
"Magic?"
"Clearly the reason that these keys are in here are due to some enchantment. If we break these open, will will break the magic and the trip would thereafter be cursed."
"But what if you cannot open the box?"
"Then we will have to engage in some sort of ritual in order to ferret out as much of the curse that would stigmatize the keys, not to say our entire undertaking thereafter."
"What is this undertaking?"
"There is the obvious part of taking care of the downtrodden, the inherent undertaking of all knights errant."
"Knights...?"
"And then there is the bigger undertaking. The one that will give you a reward greater than any you can imagine."
"Imagine? I don't understand."
"We need to inherit and empire so that you have a kingdom of your own. Such is the outcome of squires of knights errant."
"Squire?"
"Here, what we see is a population more and more agitated with congress. With the unfailing idiocracy of group intelligence the people focus on the wrong enemy. While congress is both corrupt and inept governing only to stay in power; replacing those in power with anyone else leads inevitably to the same result. The reason for a president is that founding fathers knew there was no group intellect in the long run. But the enemy is not the president though a bad president is as as a corrupt as both parties have provided. Instead the problem is the way congress is entrenched the lack of coherent oversight and resulting system of entitlement."
"I thought that we were going on a trip of self discovery. What does this have to do with that?"
"That is only a cover for the real quest. The real issue is to set a country to rights, to overthrow a tyrant, to build an empire."
"You are scaring me. I am afraid I do not understand how this would be possible. I am only a simple man, with limited education and I have never read books on politics and such things are of no interest to me."
"Fortunately for you, my dear Seventy, this problems was solved by the Greeks long ago, but we will bring this solution to the modern world...or die trying."
"What is wrong?"
"Keys," Don Q said. "We need keys. Quick Seventy, go back to the house. We must find the keys."
Tearing open the boxes, Seventy found a polished box with no apparent opening. Shaking it he heard a ringing sound. "Keys," he said.
"The box," Don said when confronted with the mysterious box,"is a puzzle. We must move the walls in a certain way and it will yield its contents."
As he worked with hidden panels, moving them slightly back and forth in series, attempting to work out the code.
"We could break it open," Seventy suggested.
"Break it open? No, that would destroy the magic."
"Magic?"
"Clearly the reason that these keys are in here are due to some enchantment. If we break these open, will will break the magic and the trip would thereafter be cursed."
"But what if you cannot open the box?"
"Then we will have to engage in some sort of ritual in order to ferret out as much of the curse that would stigmatize the keys, not to say our entire undertaking thereafter."
"What is this undertaking?"
"There is the obvious part of taking care of the downtrodden, the inherent undertaking of all knights errant."
"Knights...?"
"And then there is the bigger undertaking. The one that will give you a reward greater than any you can imagine."
"Imagine? I don't understand."
"We need to inherit and empire so that you have a kingdom of your own. Such is the outcome of squires of knights errant."
"Squire?"
"Here, what we see is a population more and more agitated with congress. With the unfailing idiocracy of group intelligence the people focus on the wrong enemy. While congress is both corrupt and inept governing only to stay in power; replacing those in power with anyone else leads inevitably to the same result. The reason for a president is that founding fathers knew there was no group intellect in the long run. But the enemy is not the president though a bad president is as as a corrupt as both parties have provided. Instead the problem is the way congress is entrenched the lack of coherent oversight and resulting system of entitlement."
"I thought that we were going on a trip of self discovery. What does this have to do with that?"
"That is only a cover for the real quest. The real issue is to set a country to rights, to overthrow a tyrant, to build an empire."
"You are scaring me. I am afraid I do not understand how this would be possible. I am only a simple man, with limited education and I have never read books on politics and such things are of no interest to me."
"Fortunately for you, my dear Seventy, this problems was solved by the Greeks long ago, but we will bring this solution to the modern world...or die trying."
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