¶ Sleep
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I’ve finally learned to accept the fact that apparently nature intends us to get to a point where we’re supposed to sleep. For years I managed to get by on just two or three hours, letting myself sleep a half-hour ever four, or six or whatever it was. It worked fine, but it was a terrible inconvenience for my wife and she made me stop it. You can theorize about what sleep is, but it seems to me that each day we just get more and more asymmetrical until we have to sleep to get back into symmetry again. So I know I have to sleep and I know that if I use the reserve energies I’ll have to take time to fill those reserve tanks. They’re in an inconvenient position and they have small nozzles, and it takes longer to fill them. But the point of all this is that I’m so convinced of what’s happening that I don’t have any personal option at all. So just being tired is not enough reason to take it easy. I know that I get to the point where I’m so fuzzy-imded that I’ll mess things up more than help them, and then sleep is something I don’t consider sinful.
