If Life Is A Loom, The Pattern

It Was 1943. The U.s. Had Already Entered World War Ii, So I Decided To Join The Army.

Miss Vesper Holly Has The Digestive Talents Of A Goat And The Mind Of A Chess Master. She Is Familiar With Half A Dozen Languages And Can Swear Fluently In All Of Them. She Understands The Use Of A Slide Rule But Prefers Doing Calculations In Her Head. She Does Not Hesitate To Risk Life And Limb- Mine As Well As Her Own. No Doubt She Has Other Qualities As Yet Undiscovered. I Hope Not.

And Thus Did An Assistant Pig-keeper Become High King Of Prydain.

A Crown Is A Pitiless Master, Harsher Than The Staff Of A Pig-keeper; While A Staff Bears Up, A Crown Weighs Down, Beyond The Strength Of Any Man To Wear It Lightly.

If Life Is A Loom, The Pattern You Weave Is Not So Easily Unraveled.