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Something up there is not digesting.
The wooden saint gave him no ready answer. Pap. Sifting out chaff. Sometimes his mind worked in
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“No!” the abbot grunted, suppressing the vision.
But of course! the saint’s wooden smile seemed to insist.
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man?ashe died of a laughing fit. That’s different. She died laughing at herself.
No, that’s at s not so different either. Ulp! The silent belch again. Tuesday’s Saint Maisie’s feast day,
forsooth. Choir laughs reverently at the Alleluia of her Mass. “Alleluia ha ha! Alleluia he ho!”
Sancta Maisie, interride pro me.”
And the king was coming to weigh books in the basement with his pair of crooked scales. How “crooked,”
Paulo? And what makes you think the Memorabilia is completely free of pap? Even the gifted and Venerable
Boedullus once remarked scornfully that about half of it should be called the Inscrutabilia. Treasured fragments
of a dead civilization there were indeed?abut how much of it has been reduced to gibberish, embellished with
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entrusted by adults with an incomprehensible message, to be memorized and delivered to other adults.
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But no,buy wow gold, that wasn’t all. He glanced at the smiling saint again. And again: Vexilla regis inferni prodeunt ….
Forth come the banners of the King of Hell,final fantasy gil, whispered a memory of that perverted line from an ancient
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The fist clenched tighter. He dropped the fan and breathed through his teeth. He avoided looking at the saint
again. The ruthless angel ambushed him with a hot burst at his corporeal core. He leaned over the desk. That one
had felt like a hot wire breaking. His hard breathing swept a clean spot in the film of desert dust on the desktop.
The smell of the dust was choking. The room went pink, swarmed with black gnats. I don’t dare belch, might
shake something loose?abut Holy Saint and Patron I’ve got to. Pain is. Ergo sum. Lord Christ God accept this
token.
He belched, tasted salt, let his head fall onto the desk.
Does the chalice have to be now right this very minute Lord or can I wait awhile? But crucifixion is always
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messing up the rug …. He felt very apologetic.
He waited a long time. Some of the gnats died and the room lost its blush but went hazy and gray.

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“We find hints, Brother,forza credits, that once there were such things,” the inventor growled. “In descriptions of the
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“Enough, enough,” the abbot interposed; then to the librarian: “Thon Taddeo will need a place to work.
What do you suggest?”
Armbruster jerked one thumb toward the Natural Science alcove. “Let him read at the lectern in there like
anyone else.”
“What about setting up a study for him here on the open floor, Father Abbot?” Kornhoer suggested in hasty
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“Besides a desk, he’ll need an abacus, a wall slate, and a drawing board. We could partition it off with
temporary screens.”
“I thought he was going to need our Leibowitzian references and earliest writings?” the librarian said
suspiciously.
“He will.”
“Then he’ll have to walk back and forth a lot if you put him in the middle. The rare volumes are chained, and
the chains won’t reach that far.”
“That’s no problem,” said the inventor. “Take off the chains. They look silly anyway. The schismatic cults
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Armbruster reddened angrily. “Oh no you don’t,” be snapped. “The chains stay on.”
“But why?”
“It’s not the book burners now. It’s the villagers we have to worry about. The chains stay on.”
Kornhoer turned to the abbot and spread his bands. “See, m’Lord?,”
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“All right,” Kornhoer sighed. “So he’ll have to work in the alcove.”
“Now, where do we hang your wondrous lamp?”
The monks glanced toward the cubicle. It was one of fourteen identical stalls, sectioned according to subject
matter, which faced the central floor. Each alcove had its archway, and from an iron hook imbedded in the
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“Heathen!” hissed the librarian. “Pagan! Desecrator!” Armbruster raised trembling hands heavenward. “God
help me, lest I tear him apart with these hands! Where will he stop? Take him away, away!” He turned his back

“Benedicamus Domine.”
“Deo? gratias?” asked Francis.
“Come in, my boy, come in!” called an affable voice, which, after some seconds of puzzling, he recognized
with amazement to have been that of his sovereign abbot.
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“You twist the little knob, my son,cheap star wars galaxies credits,” said the same friendly voice after Brother Francis had stood frozen on
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“Y-y-yes-” Francis scarcely touched the knob, but it seemed that the accursed door opened anyway; he had
hoped that it would he tightly stuck.
“The Lord Abbot s-s-sent for?ame?” squawked the novice.
Abbot Arkos pursed his lips and nodded slowly. “Mmmm?ayes, the Lord Abbot sent for?ayou. Do come in
and shut the door.”
Brother Francis got the door closed and stood shivering In the center of the room. The abbot was toying
with some of the wire-whiskered things from the old toolbox.
“Or perhaps it would be more fitting,” said Abbot Arkos, “If the Reverend Father Abbot were sent for by
you. Now that you have been so favored by Providence and have become so famous, eh?” He smiled soothingly.
“Heh heh?” Brother Francis laughed inquiringly. “Oh n-n-no, m’Lord.”
“You do not dispute that you have won overnight fame? That Providence elected you to discover THIS?a”
he gestured sweepingly at the relics on the desk “?athis ]UNK box, as its previous owner no doubt rightly called
it?”
The novice stammered helplessly, and somehow managed to wind up wearing a grin.
“You are seventeen and plainly an idiot, are you not?”
“That is undoubtedly true, m’Lord Abbot.”
“What excuse do you propose for believing yourself called to Religion?”
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“Ah? So? Then you feel that you have no vocation to the Order?”
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“Oh, no, what?”
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Francis reddened. “I?aI tried to catch it. It got away.”
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The priest winced. He had several hermitages to visit; it was a long hot ride, and his knees were hurting.
Please get on with it as quickly as you can,” he sighed.
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“Thought, word, or deed?”
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“Yes, but?a”
“Then why confess it?”
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“Afterwards what? When you woke up?”
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All this was the usual sort of thing that one kept hearing time after endless time from postulant after
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prompting. Francis seemed to find difficulty in formulating whatever he was about to say; the priest waited.
“I think my vocation has come to me, Father, but?a” Francis moistened his cracked lips and stared at a bug
on a rock.
“Oh, has it?” Cheroki’s voice was toneless
“Yes, I think?abut would it be a sin, Father, if when I first got it, I thought rather scornfully of the
handwriting? I mean?”
Cheroki blinked. Handwriting? Vocation? What kind of a question was?aHe studied the novice’s serious
expression for a few seconds, then frowned.
“Have you and Brother Alfred been passing notes to each other?” he asked ominously.
“Oh, no, Father!”
“Then whose handwriting are you talking about?”
“The Blessed Leibowitz.”
Cheroki paused to think. Did there,runescape money, or did there not, exist in the abbey’s collection of ancient documents, any
manuscript penned personally by the founder of the Order??aan original copy? After a moment’s reflection, he
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“Are you talking about something that happened back at the abbey? Before you came out here?”
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proportions of the fantasy church dwindled to the size of a wayside shrine; the river of pilgrims shrank to a
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integrity) and still other examples. While attempting to settle this dispute, New Rome had seemingly left the case
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Contenting himself with a small shrine of the Beatus and a casual trickle of pilgrims, Brother Francis
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The yelp, he decided as he lay trembling within his den of stones and brush, had been only an involuntary
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while padded feet scratched about his enclosure.
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“So there was not culpable gluttony of thought either. Why are you confessing this?”
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“You what? Why?”