Hardy came back but Laurel went out again.

They were well fed this morning and may have had two meals last night, since no one knew if they had been fed.

Koto music is playing, so fine and divine and sublime.

I read the words of Tolstoy, who seemed to have been quite mad deep down with sufferings....He did say something like 'feeling the pains of others is being a human being'. Spontaneously, I liked it when I read it. But then I thought: hum, not really, that was Jesus thing on the cross. Not any human beings can do that: feel other people's pain. We can perhaps only love them and help them by sympathy.