This too is vanity

There are many leaflets floating around, offering propaganda and humor of many varieties. I found a sheet on the chair next to me in the House of Deputies. I don't know where it comes from, if you know, please let me know. Anyway, here it is:

Daily Office Reading, from the Book of Conventions

I, Alternatus, attended the Convention in the city of the Navigator. And I said I will give myself to Wisdom. I will buy many books in the Exhibit Hall and learn all there is to know. And I spoke to the marketer of books, who said that the wisdom is in the selling, for there is no end to marketing. And behold, this is vanity.

So I said I will learn the ways of power, and vote to change all things. But no matter how many buttons I pushed, there was no end to voting, and I saw that this was vanity, and a striving after wind.

So I gave myself to pleasure, and said I will go from hospitality suite to hospitality suite, and I will drink wine, both red and white, and eat brie, and maybe some nuts. And I did this until my head was swollen. And behold, this was vanity, and it gave me much wind.

So I gave myself up to despair, and became a beggar on the streets. I received the prayers of many, and $1.37 in change, and also a bus token. And this too was vanity.

And what I have learned: take pleasure in the work God has given you to do; love your neighbor; and the bathrooms outside the House of Bishops are much cleaner.

Here endeth the Reading.