Preordained
Yesterday afternoon I took a long nap after an unexpected four hours of work on my only day off for two weeks. I went to bed at midnight, and I was still awake at 1:20 AM, and decided that I may as well accomplish something, so I got up and proceeded to finish the book I was reading, and at around 2:25 AM I came across this passage...
"He became vividly conscious that his knowledge of Malacandra was minute, local, parochial. It was as if a sorn had journeyed forty million miles to the Earth and spent his stay there between Worthing and Brighton."
- C.S. Lewis, "Out of the Silent Planet"
For those of you who don't know, I was living and working in Worthing (on the southeast coast of England) last year; Brighton is thirteen miles east of Worthing, and my work took me there four or five times. I travelled further than the distance between Worthing and Brighton, but the company I worked for stretched as far west as Littlehampton and as far east as Shoreham-by-Sea, and that was my primary location for two months. Reading that passage made it almost seem that the revered Dr. Lewis was writing specifically for my benefit more than half a century ago.
Because I was up so late, I slept a lot later than I had originally intended, so this'll be the last post until early this afternoon. Stay out of trouble, and read through the news updates below so that you can be aware.
"He became vividly conscious that his knowledge of Malacandra was minute, local, parochial. It was as if a sorn had journeyed forty million miles to the Earth and spent his stay there between Worthing and Brighton."
- C.S. Lewis, "Out of the Silent Planet"
For those of you who don't know, I was living and working in Worthing (on the southeast coast of England) last year; Brighton is thirteen miles east of Worthing, and my work took me there four or five times. I travelled further than the distance between Worthing and Brighton, but the company I worked for stretched as far west as Littlehampton and as far east as Shoreham-by-Sea, and that was my primary location for two months. Reading that passage made it almost seem that the revered Dr. Lewis was writing specifically for my benefit more than half a century ago.
Because I was up so late, I slept a lot later than I had originally intended, so this'll be the last post until early this afternoon. Stay out of trouble, and read through the news updates below so that you can be aware.
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