the nap was nice
Jan. 19th, 2012 02:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensThe days when I have a nice long nap on getting back home after work are days when I don't get much (if anything) done in the evening.
They are nice naps, though.
Coworker was very pleased by hooded scarf. (Even if there was some slight change in the colour along the scarf, due to different dye lots of yarn, which I hadn't noticed beforehand: but she was kind enough to say that it just made it more tonal and interesting.) I have warned her that I will not be making any for her friends, even if they want them: eight feet is quite a bit of knitting. She said that she entirely understood.
Must get some groceries tomorrow evening after work. Must also remember to try to pick up volume 2 of The Drops of God. I had no idea that it was by the same author (well, co-author in the later case) as GetBackers. Heh.
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They accuse us of arrested development because we have not lost a taste we had in childhood. But surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things? I now like hock, which I am sure I should not have liked as a child. But I still like lemon-squash. I call this growth or development because I have been enriched: where I formerly had only one pleasure, I now have two. But if I had to lose the taste for lemon-squash before I acquired the taste for hock, that would not be growth but simple change. I now enjoy Tolstoy and Jane Austen and Trollope as well as fairy tales and I call that growth: if I had had to lose the fairy tales in order to acquire the novelists, I would not say that I had grown but only that I had changed. A tree grows because it adds rings: a train doesn't grow by leaving one station behind and puffing on to the next. In reality, the case is stronger and more complicated than this. I think my growth is just as apparent when I now read the fairy tales as when I read the novelists, for I now enjoy the fairy tales better than I did in childhood: being now able to put more in, of course I get more out.
-- CS Lewis
They are nice naps, though.
Coworker was very pleased by hooded scarf. (Even if there was some slight change in the colour along the scarf, due to different dye lots of yarn, which I hadn't noticed beforehand: but she was kind enough to say that it just made it more tonal and interesting.) I have warned her that I will not be making any for her friends, even if they want them: eight feet is quite a bit of knitting. She said that she entirely understood.
Must get some groceries tomorrow evening after work. Must also remember to try to pick up volume 2 of The Drops of God. I had no idea that it was by the same author (well, co-author in the later case) as GetBackers. Heh.
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They accuse us of arrested development because we have not lost a taste we had in childhood. But surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things? I now like hock, which I am sure I should not have liked as a child. But I still like lemon-squash. I call this growth or development because I have been enriched: where I formerly had only one pleasure, I now have two. But if I had to lose the taste for lemon-squash before I acquired the taste for hock, that would not be growth but simple change. I now enjoy Tolstoy and Jane Austen and Trollope as well as fairy tales and I call that growth: if I had had to lose the fairy tales in order to acquire the novelists, I would not say that I had grown but only that I had changed. A tree grows because it adds rings: a train doesn't grow by leaving one station behind and puffing on to the next. In reality, the case is stronger and more complicated than this. I think my growth is just as apparent when I now read the fairy tales as when I read the novelists, for I now enjoy the fairy tales better than I did in childhood: being now able to put more in, of course I get more out.
-- CS Lewis
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Date: 2012-01-19 03:17 am (UTC)CS Lewis has much wisdom.
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