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the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nodename" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nodename</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>I may mis-read this entirely, but I think by "considerable" here he means "respected". He feels people listen to him and treat him as an authority, and, like all of us, he enjoys this kind of feeling.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>This will be a key scene in my Pepys movie (starring either Steve Coogan or<br>Benedict Cumberbatch as Pepys).</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>"But methought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain."</p><p>What a sentence!</p><p>Sam is sheltering off the river, watches the King being drenched still on the river, very possibly worries about being seen as a whimp. Or he just is disappointed that the King gets drenched like anybody else (if it rains).</p><p>I am reminded of Racine saying, "Je n'ecrit que pour le Roi", I only ever write for the King." Oh the disapointment if the King gets his silk clothes all drenched.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TheKing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheKing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/rain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Racine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racine</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>Sam, I love you when you are just trying to learn about the world. You, taking lessons in multiplication tables, here you take a trip on the Thames just to learn about ships.</p><p> I know that most of these you do to be better at your job and impress the King. But you do want to learn. I am a teacher and I love you for it.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>learning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teaching</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/curiosity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>curiosity</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@a_cubed" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>a_cubed</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>Good point. Must have missed those entries. Our Sam sure is a complex character. Innocent enjoyment of life and art and games and music, combined with violence and greed. The spell he has over us comes from his honesty, which is pre-modern, so we don't really understand it. Nor does he. A joy to follow him here on Mastodon in the 21st C.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>Not sure I understand this, but I think our Sam is weeding our fraudsters in the public procurement process. If so, well done, Sam, we need you here today.</p><p>Plus, of course, based on recent entries it seems that Sam is taking an Open University course on basic arithmetics, learning the multiplication tables. Never too late!</p><p>Good work, Sam. A model to public servants everywhere and at all times.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/selfimprovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfimprovement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PublicService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicService</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>Sometimes that is what we have to do, Sam. Those of us who still feel bad about the falsehoods we are forced to perform are ok. It's those who don't feel the remorse anymore who are the problem. </p><p>"There is no right life in the false one." TW Adorno</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Adorno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Adorno</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MinimaMoralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MinimaMoralia</span></a></p>
Ross of Ottawa<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> Answering my own query: </p><p>"…he built up a substantial personal collection of books and manuscripts, which is chiefly preserved in the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. …[his] correspondence now widely dispersed in public and private collections. He also left, in official and other archives, a very large quantity of working papers. These include several hundred autograph manuscriptss, many of them written in his shorthand notation… "</p><p>from <a href="https://celm.folger.edu/introductions/PepysSamuel.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">celm.folger.edu/introductions/</span><span class="invisible">PepysSamuel.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pepys</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>Done this myself, Sam, a few times. Better kind &amp; sorry than unkind &amp; lossless. You did right.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>"we" being the critical word here.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/IdentifyingWithTheRuler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IdentifyingWithTheRuler</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RulingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RulingClass</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>"... and so he and I sat singing upon the leads till almost ten at night and so he went away (a pretty, harmless, and ingenious man), and I to bed, in a very great content of mind, ..."</p><p>Oh, Sam, how innocent and charming. We love you because of entries such as this, full of childlike innocence and joy.. </p><p>And, if I may, Sam: you write this sweet note one day after you whipped a child so hard that your arm ached in the night. Stop beating the weak, for heaven's sake, buddy, but keep singing and keep enjoying the mutlitude of life's pleasures.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/innocence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>innocence</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/weareallfullofcontradictionsandwhoknowswhowereallyare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>weareallfullofcontradictionsandwhoknowswhowereallyare</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p> "... and had the musique of the house, and so merrily home again".</p><p>How to do it, Sam. </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a></p>
Nigel<p>It afforded our household the greatest of pleasures to welcome the goode Bishop of Shepherd Neame, upon the occasion of his visitation this fine evening. He bestows his blessings upon us even as I write.<br><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pepys</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/beer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beer</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/shepherdneame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shepherdneame</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/blessings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blessings</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>Pepys on Cicero: "and more I discern therein than ever I thought was to be found in him."</p><p>I love: (a) Sam's willingness to read the text afresh; (b) his enjoyment of the text; (c) his recognition that in the past he did not read it right.</p><p>But most of all, I am so moved by the fact that now that he has put Cicero aside and scribbles in his diary, he is so much under the spell that his English in style and melody and grammatical structure reads like a Latin sentence.</p><p>Pepys has a way with words.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Cicero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cicero</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/style" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>style</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>As I have posted many times, for our Sam the executioner is never far.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>"I did get a vote signed by all, concerning my issuing of warrants, which they did not smell the use I intend to make of it ..."</p><p>Good work, Sam. Lay the trap.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/SunTzu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunTzu</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>" ... for that I am resolved much to enquire into the price of commodities."</p><p>Nicely phrased, Sam. Could easily be remoulded to say "I am resolved to enquire into the origin of species", or some such deep declaration. You have style, Sam. </p><p>We witness the birth of an economist, or a statistician. </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>Pepys in his office, dressed formally, doing paperwork. A previously neglected old chest is being opened, and, surreally, an intricate model of a beautiful ship lies inside. Pepys looks at it with wide eyes, willing to get drawn into a dream. The camera rests on his face for a minute, in the background we hear a mother singing a children's song about Peter the Adventurer. </p><p>A senior member of the King's administration, being innocent.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PepysTheMovie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PepysTheMovie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/innocence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>innocence</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>Good work, buddy, standing up to the fraudsters. </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>"... and the boy crept through the hedge and gathered abundance of roses." </p><p>Oh my, Sam, you are a poet. I see a 1920s surrealist photograph here. Man Ray?</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a></p>