We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh dereliction by saying, "I won't count this time!" Well, he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve-cells and fibres the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.
- - William James
Today's earrings: spiders, estrogen molecules
Bedtime reading: Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
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We say, "What you practice, you perform." And didn't Gandhi say something about making the revolution in the image of the world you want to create? - a.
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