Linus is philosophizing with Lucy. "Life is peculiar," he says. "Wouldn't you like to have your life to live over if you knew what you know now?"

Lucy stares off blankly, then asks, "What do I know now?"

E. Stanley Jones once told of being on a cruise ship. There was a rather corpulent couple on that cruise who seemed to live from one meal to the next. They were retired and obviously had plenty of money, but they seemed miserable. They were always angry with the table stewards for not giving them super-service. They seemed to be afraid they might starve between courses. They never read a book or paper. Their physical appetites seemed the one thing that mattered to them. They sat between meals and stared out, apparently waiting for the next meal. One night Jones saw them sitting and stari…