Spent another two hours on the jigsaw puzzle, and it was crunch time--all the pieces are of solid colors and the trick pieces are kicking in, compelling me to take apart portions that I felt belonged together. I managed to locate and assemble only five pieces.

Amazingly I saw the parallelism between assembling this 1,000-piece puzzle and the exercises in hermeneutics we went through at Maryhill School of Theology, where we were made to study passages of Scripture in koine Greek and derive their meanings: first the meaning of a passage alone, then the meaning of the passage in between two other passages, and then between two other passages on either side, and so on.

Started reading "Murder in Canton".