Smallhouse Log

Monday, Twenty-fifth week after Pentecost

I woke up today to find that my computer would not turn on. I suspect the power supply. I have enough other computers around to cannibalize (or switch to) that it shouldn't be a problem in the long run, but, man, annoying. As a result, I'm just going to share some of the things I've been coming across in my reading this past fortnight.

First, from The Scarlet Letter: "She could no longer borrow from the future to help her through the present grief. To-morrrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne."

From The Prince: "A wise Prince should devise means weereby his subjects may at all times, whether favourable or adverse, feel the need of the State and of him, and then they will always be faithful to him."

From Second Samuel: "To the faithful you show yourself faithful,
to the blameless you show yourself blameless,
to the pure you show your self pure,
but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd."

I've always found the Lord very shrewd. Should I be worried?

Addendum: When I went to go hunt for the quote from Hawthorne, I fell asleep reading. I had gone to bed early the night before, and woken up late, and yet I fell asleep shortly after breakfast, sitting in my chair. And napped so for five hours.

Should I be worried?

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