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Do you think it's easy for him, the poor bastard? To be that weak whenever their music begins? It's not a convenient delight, not a tempered scale. Not a choice. As Saint Francis had no choice, needing to be walled up in his stone cell all winter. To be flogged through Assisi naked and foul. God is not optional when faith is like that. But Francis had a vocation, not a need for silly women. Giovanni really believes they are important. Talks about them as parallel systems. Crazy stuff. An educated gentleman of the finest family wandering off helplessly after their faintest glimmer. He believes there is a secret melded with the ladies. He smiles and nods all evening as he listens to their chatter and the whining about their husbands. He says the world changes because of them. Their flesh unfolds and he goes through to something beyond the flesh. Hears a voice, he says. A primitive radio at the core of them. Growing and fading, as though it comes from the moon. |
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