leprechaun2 - The Monday Morning Memo

You can be listening to him sing, you can, but you’ll be having to
back-click to rejoin the rabbit hole. This be a side-tunnel you’ve taken.

“For in a Trappist monastery each monk has an occupation of his own choice, apart from his religious duties and the general labors of the house. Each must sing in the choir, if he has a voice and ear, and join in the haymaking if he has a hand to stir; but in his private hours, although he must be occupied, he may be occupied on what he likes. Thus I was told that one brother was engaged with literature; while Father Apollinaris busies himself in making roads, and the Abbot employs himself in binding books. It is not so long since this Abbot was consecrated, by the way; and on that occasion, by a special grace, his mother was permitted to enter the chapel and witness the ceremony of consecration. A proud day for her to have a son a mitred abbot; it makes you proud to think they let her in.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1878) p. 66

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