And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right." "They knew many things but had no idea why.“Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.”Ĭloister: In Late Middle Orth, a garden or court surrounded by buildings, thought of as the heart or center of the math.Each proclaimed the time the day of the week the month the phase of the moon the year and (for those who knew how to read them) a lot of other cosmographical arcana. But all four were connected to the same internal works.
The dials had been crafted in different ages, and each showed the time in a different way.
When most people spoke of “the clock,” though, they meant its four dials, which were mounted high on the walls of the Præsidium-the Mynster’s central tower. In a sense the clock was the entire Mynster, and its basement.The questionnaire is used once every ten years to determine if civilization outside the monastic compound is beginning to regress.“Do you fancy you will see your dead dogs and cats in some sort of afterlife?” “When a child gets sick, do you pray? Sacrifice to a painted stick? Or blame it on an old lady?” Then he looked up and added helpfully, “You might call them pastors or witch doctors.” “Do your shamans walk around on stilts?” Fraa Orolo asked, reading from a leaf that, judging by its brownness, was at least five centuries old. “Do your neighbors burn one another alive?” was how Fraa Orolo began his conversation with Artisan Flec.
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