adianquiet - The Monday Morning Memo

“Mostly what I learned for
12 years was how to keep quiet.”
– Adrian Van Zelfden,
speaking of his public school experience.

Adrian went on to become a lawyer,
a CPA and the youngest captain ever to graduate
from the Air Force Academy.
Adrian is part of the faculty
at Wizard Academy.

“Here and there exclamation marks stuck out of the ground, sharp needles piercing the scenery. Whenever my gaze caught on them, my eyelids began to quiver; the eye cut itself on those wooden structures erected in the fields, on their boundaries, or at the edge of the forest. In total there were eight of them in the Plateau, I knew the exact figure, because I’d had dealings with them in the past, like Don Quixote with the windmills. They were knocked together out of wooden beams, set crosswise; they consisted entirely of crosses. These grotesque figures had four legs and a cabin with embrasures on top. Pulpits, for hunting. This name has always amazed and angered me. For what on earth was taught from that sort of pulpit? What sort of Gospel was preached? Isn’t it the height of arrogance, isn’t it a diabolical idea to call a place from which one kills a pulpit?”

- Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, p. 54, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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