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Post by Cearnach » Thu May 28, 2020 12:16 am

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These are the public areas of the monastery, and are often highly populated by monks at work. The cells and scriptoria of the monastery can be accessed from here, as can the north transept of the abbey church. Religious characters not required to stay with their lords or their retinues would be offered lodging in the cells here by the Benedictines.
Gm * Man of Angles * Sionnach * Scealai *

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,/Every poem an epitaph. And any action/Is a step to the block, to the fire, down the sea's throat/Or to an illegible stone: and that is where we start.
We die with the dying:/See, they depart, and we go with them./We are born with the dead:/See, they return, and bring us with them./The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree/Are of equal duration. A people without history/Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern/Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails/On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel/History is now and England --Eliot, Little Gidding
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