<!--
var isnMonths=new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December");
var isnDays= new Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday","Sunday");
today=new Date();
//  -->


<!-- Original:  George Chuang -->

<!-- This script and many more are available free online at -->
<!-- The JavaScript Source!! http://javascript.internet.com -->

<!-- Begin
theDate= new Date();
var day = theDate.getDate();
var year = theDate.getYear();
year = (year < 2000) ? year + 1900 : year;
var textdate = (theDate.getMonth() + 1) + '/' + theDate.getDate() + '/' + year;

var numquotes = 31;
quotes = new Array(numquotes+1);
quotes[1]="Some hundreds of them drifted past me, a wonderful fairy squadron of strange unknown argosies of the sky - creatures whose forms and substance were so attuned to these pure heights that one could not conceive anything so delicate within actual sight or sound of earth.  -  <I>The Horror of the Heights</I>";	
quotes[2]="\"There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity.  You will see it often in humans.  I have a theory that the individual represents in his development the whole procession of his ancestors, and that such a sudden turn to good or evil stands for some strong influence which came into the line of his pedigree.  The person becomes, as it were, the epitome of the history of his own family.\" -  <I>The Adventure of the Empty House</I>";	
quotes[3]="\"How are you? You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.\"  -  <I>A Study in Scarlet</I>";	
quotes[4]="Warner had been wanted by the law, and by nobody else, for many years. -  <I>The Los Amigos Fiasco</I>";
quotes[5]="\"One dumb-bell, Watson!  Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell.  Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature.  Shocking, Watson, shocking!\"  -  <I>The Valley of Fear</I>";	
quotes[6]="\"There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.\" -  <I>A Study in Scarlet</I>";	
quotes[7]="He listened in silent respect, as his duty was, and then, having saluted his leader, he withdrew apart, threw himself down among the bushes, and wept the hottest tears of this life, sobbing bitterly, with his face between his hands.  He had striven hard, and yet everything had gone wrong with him.   He was bruised, burned and aching from head to foot.  Yet so high is the spirit above the body that all was nothing compared to he sorrow and shame which racked his soul. -  <I>Sir Nigel</I>";	
quotes[8]="\"I think you want a little unofficial help.  Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade.   But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual -- that's to say, you handled it fairly well.\"  -  <I>The Adventure of the Empty House</I>";	
quotes[9]="You quote an isolated sentence from my lecture, and appear to have some difficulty in understanding it.  I should have thought that only a sub-human intelligence could have failed to grasp the point, but if it really needs amplification I shall consent to see you at the hour named . . . -  <I>The Lost World</I>";
quotes[10]="\"From the point of view of the criminal expert,\" said Mr. Sherlock Holmes, \"London has become a singularly uninteresting city since the death of the late lamented Professor Moriarty.\"  -  <I>The Adventure of the Norwood Builder</I>";	
quotes[11]="\"Dear me, Watson, is it possible that you have not penetrated the fact that the case hangs upon the missing dumb-bell?\" -  <I>The Valley of Fear</I>";	
quotes[12]="Our old chambers had been left unchanged through the supervision of Mycroft Holmes and the immediate care of Mrs. Hudson.  As I entered I saw, it is true, an unwonted tidiness, but the old landmarks were all in their place.  There were the chemical corner and the acid-stained, deal-topped table.  There upon a shelf was the row of formidable scrap-books and books of reference which many of our fellow-citizens would have been so glad to burn.  The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack -- even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco -- all met my eyes as I glanced round me.  -  <I>The Adventure of the Empty House</I>";	
quotes[13]="\"Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.\" -  <I>The Lost World</I>";	
quotes[14]="\"From a drop of water,\" said the writer, \"a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.  So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it.\"   -  <I>A Study in Scarlet</I>";
quotes[15]="\"The Scotch knights have no masters in the world, and he who can hold his own with the best of them, be it a Douglas, a Murray or a Seaton, has nothing more to learn.\" -  <I>Sir Nigel</I>";	
quotes[16]="\"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it - there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.\"  -  <I>A Study in Scarlet</I>";	
quotes[17]="The Professor snorted like an angry buffalo.  \"You really touch the limit,\" said he.  \"You enlarge my view of the possible.  Cerebral paresis!  Mental inertia!  Wonderful!\" -  <I>The Lost World</I>";	
quotes[18]="\"Is it not?  Is it not?  Breadth of view, my dear Mr. Mac, is one of the essentials of our profession.  The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of knowledge are often of extraordinary interest.\" -  <I>The Valley of Fear</I>";	
quotes[19]="\"It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.\" -  <I>A Study in Scarlet</I>";
quotes[20]="\"Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known.  Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in  comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?\"  -  <I>The Lost World</I>";
quotes[21]="\"I wonder!\" said he, leaning back and staring at the ceiling.  \"Perhaps there are points which have escaped your Machiavellian intellect.  Let us consider the problem in the light of pure reason.\"  -  <I>The Valley of Fear</I>";	
quotes[22]="\"I'm not going to tell you much more of the case, Doctor.  You know a conjuror gets no credit when once he has explained his trick, and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.\" -  <I>A Study in Scarlet</I>";	
quotes[23]="\"As a rule,\" said Holmes, \"the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.\" -  <I>The Red-Headed League</I>";	
quotes[24]="\"But he had not that supreme gift of the artist, the knowledge of when to stop.\"  -  <I>The Adventure of the Norwood Builder</I>";	
quotes[25]="\"Nay,\" said she, \"the saints in Heaven cannot help me now until they take me to my rest.  There is no place for me in the world beyond, and all my friends were slain on the day I was taken.  Leave me, brave men, and let me care for myself.  Already it lightens in the east, and black will be your fate if you are taken.  Go, and may the blessing of one who was once a holy nun go with you and guard you from danger.\"   -  <I>Sir Nigel</I>";	
quotes[26]="His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.  -  <I>The Parasite</I>";	
quotes[27]="It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man.  So green, so mild, so beautiful!  Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!  -  <I>The Parasite</I>";	
quotes[28]="In the centre of this singular chamber was a square table, littered with papers, bottles, and the dried leaves of some graceful, palm-like plant. These varied objects had all been heaped together in order to make room for a mummy case, which had been conveyed from the wall, as was evident from the gap there, and laid across the front of the table. The mummy itself, a horrid, black, withered thing, like a charred head on a gnarled bush, was lying half out of the case, with its claw-like hand and bony forearm resting upon the table. -  <I>Lot No. 249</I>";	
quotes[29]="\"Listen to me while I lay a curse upon you and yours!\" she cries, as she raised her shriveled arms and blighted him with her flashing eyes: \"As you have done to the house of Loring, so may God do to you, until your power is swept from the land of England, and of your great Abbey of Waverley there is nothing left but a pile of  grey stones in a green meadow!  I see it!  With my old eyes I see it!  From scullion to abbot and from cellar to  tower, may Waverley and all within it droop and wither from this night on!\" -  <I>Sir Nigel</I>";	
quotes[30]="\"'The Valley of Fear,'\" the lady answered.  \"That was an expression he has used when I questioned him.  'I have been in the Valley of Fear.  I am not out of it yet.'  -- 'Are we never to get out of the Valley of Fear?'   I have asked him when I have seen him more serious than usual.  'Sometimes I think that we never shall,' he has answered.\"  -  <I>The Valley of Fear</I>";	
quotes[31]="\"They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral.  I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of  the legend.  I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.\"  -  <I>The Hound of the Baskervilles</I>";	

//  End -->

