{Church (2)}[23rd May 1988]

[Redbook5:121-122][19880523:1212b]{Church (2)}[23rd May 1988]

19880523.1212

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*And Church? Well, I am still oscillating; but then, I have never been one for team sports. I had to read a Lesson ** before the Archbishop from St. David's in [our church] earlier this year: I had taken care to send the xS extracts from [2] to our Canon, [XQ] – whose excellence is the main factor keeping me in the Church – about a week (or less) beforehand. On that Sunday morning, washing my hair [while] in the bath, I became partially deaf, and remained so until after the Service: something I do not recall happening elsewhen.**** Leaving for Church, I found that in the night the wind had apparently unhitched the restraining string of the open gate from its nail, and blown it shut, so that I had to get out of the car an open it: something which in all the gales before and since has never happened.# (Or did we leave it unhitched?)

On the whole, I avoid superstitious attention to apparent actual signs (as opposed to symbols) because they are almost invariably ambiguous.#* But one does wonder, sometimes.

#**

*[See [Redbook5:119][19880509:1135j]{Church (1)}[9^th May 1988]]

**{cf. VI.[]262}

***[See [Redbook5:5A][19880126:0000][Extract from Letter to [XQ] (1)][26^th January 1988], &

[Redbook5:23A][19880301:0000][Extract from Letter to [XQ] (2)][1st March 1988]]

****[but it has happened subsequently]

#It has happened once, since, now. <891009>

#*as to origin as well as intention (if any)

#**After the Service, the Canon pointed me out to the Archbishop, who had in fact already worked out who I was; the Archbishop enquired of me what I did, offered me computer work – which I said I would only do for free, against his protestation that it was to help me – and told me to get in touch with them if they could help; my late admission to the secret vice of scribbling went unheard, I think. See [[Redbook5:185-186][19880620:1040]{Revival?}[20th June 1988]] p185-6 <880620>

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