[March 2004 journal entry]
I ask any reader of my journal entries for patience with repetitions as did Leonardo da Vinci in his description of his notebooks (The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, p. 41) –
This will be a collection without order, made up of many sheets which I have copied here, hoping afterwards to arrange them in order in their proper places according to the subjects of which they treat; and I believe that before I am at the end of this I shall have to repeat the same thing several times; and, therefore, O reader, blame me not, because the subjects are many, and the memory cannot retain them and say ‘this I will not write because I have already written it’.
