“Provocation? By the fanciful lie of a vagrant fool? Josard reacted as if the Poet’s charges were true.”
“Then you don’t know that they are preparing a comprehensive report on the military value of our abbey as
a fortress?”
The scholar’s jaw fell. He stared from one priest to the other in apparent unbelief.
“Can this be true?” [...]
The officer barked an oath and the blade leaped clean of the scabbard. His comrades seized him, however,
before he could lunge. An astonished rumble came from the congregation as the startled monks came to their
feet. The Poet was still smiling blandly.
“?aartistic growth,” he continued. “I predict that one day your drawing [...]
kicked the fellow’s ankle, but the fool persisted.
“I would assume all the blame for you, of course,” he said, noisily chewing white meat. “It’s a fine system,
one which I was prepared to make available to you too, Most Eminent Scholar. I’m sure you would have found it
convenient. I have been [...]
“Perhaps we shall have his inspired Mock Pork with Maize a la Friar John, eh?”
“It sounds interesting,” said the scholar. “What is it?”
“Greasy armadillo with parched corn, boiled in donkey milk. A regular Sunday special.”
“Poet!” snapped the abbot; then to the thon: “I apologize for his presence. He wasn’t invited.”
The scholar surveyed the Poet with [...]
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appetites with hints of a feast. The familiar milk mugs stayed in the pantry, their places taken for tonight by the
best wine cups. Roses were scattered along the boards.
The abbot stopped in the corridor to wait for the reader to finish reading. [...]
“But if your subject matter is the physical world, how could you possibly offend? Especially this
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“Why not talk to Thon Taddeo about it?”
“The officers aren’t his servants. They were only sent as an escort to protect him. What can he do?”
“He’s Hannegan’s kinsman, and he has influence.”
The abbot nodded. “I’ll try to think of a way to approach him on the matter. We’ll watch what’s going on for
a while first, [...]
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of the floor’s concavity. “Why, it’s shaped like what Brother Majek calls a normal distribution curve. How
strange.”
“Not strange. The [...]
apology for his spontaneous judgment of the incident, after the inventor of the device had given the scholar a
detailed account of its recent design and manufacture. But the apology succeeded only in convincing the abbot
further that the blunder had been serious. It put the thon [...]
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