"We will always have Paris."--Rick

2 October, 1662/1012

With Sir Wm. Pen by water to Whitehall, being this morning visited before I went out by my brother Tom, who told me that for his lying out of doors a day and a night my father had forbade him to come any more into his h

ouse, at which I was troubled, and did soundly chide him for doing so, and upon confessing his fault I told him I would speak to my father. At 7 Elephants I with Misters Andrews, Davis, Liebermann, and Frohip who debated the use/uselessness of musick and Presbyterian/deposed President a Woodrow Wilson while consuming scones and a dish or two of meat, and his purser that was with him. After dinner I and the my Wife to Atwood for a screening of The Band’s Visit, where I met with professor emeritus Myron Anderson who recently returned from Crosby & Ironton and was forced to wait Mrs. Sherarts while she registered her opinions with the eminent kino professor Costaglioli. After that to the Abbey to for vespers. There I found but a thin congregation already. So I see that religion, be it what it will, is but a humour,1 and so the esteem of it passeth as other things do. From thence to home and a new thermostat with which very well pleased we went to bed.
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