wrote:
>: > On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, technical boy wrote:
>: > I believe the establishment of hermitages and monasteries has been
>: > effective in previous new beginnings.
>: i see, the lumpen will not tolerate just any old atrocity to set up a
>: Functioning Society; we can count on you, not to burn down the hermitages
>: and monastaries.
>History has prepared us for either eventuality. The torch has a certain
>finality that places it further down the wish list, all things being
>equal.
The thugs are scouting for vittles and fixin's and a bit of rustic fun, and
as luck might have it, a gold reliquary or two.
And may you be spared the depredations of the civil (Henry) and the
ideological (The Directory, The Politburo) -- I assume history has prepared
you for that, as well.
>If it's a question of needing firewood, tho' , we can always live in tents
>--or in a habitual and unrelenting state of mind and heart. Yer call.
Nah. The thugs don't want yer souls, just directions to the wine cellar...
(__) Sourcerer
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