The Church and the Public House Rev. Thomas Hancock Date: 3 rd Sunday after Easter 1888 (An extract from the sermon ‘The Church and the Public House: or Temperance not to be used as a Cloak of Maliciousness’ from Welsby (1970)) Text: As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the King. 1 Peter 2: 16-17 As it is the special temptation of the free man to abuse his liberty to libertinism in thought and conduct, so it is the special temptation of the professional temperance-man to rush into the wildest degrees of tyrannical intemperance. It has become a truism that he exceeds all the rest of mankind in his intoxication. He has to be particularly on guard lest his temperance, like the other’s liberty, be used ‘as a cloak of maliciousness’. The maliciousness of the temperance man, as the outsiders view it, assumes two forms – firstly, a most unreasonable social or ra...
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ReplyDeleteAn experiment.
I’m not sure if it is even repeatable, I decided to take some fairly bland pop music lyrics – the sort that are the background to all our lives. They play constantly everywhere. You probably know them off by heart even though they might have been written in five minutes on the back of a cigarette packet.
What if you take those lyrics, add a surreal dimension, a dream dimension, a stream of consciousness dimension and re-write them. I found it enjoyable.
At first I just printed off lyrics and re-wrote. Then it all got mixed up with different verses and verses being mixed in. Reading it back, I can tell where number 1 came from but the rest? Their origin is lost in history.