Ruth's Ramblings

[At the Garden of Olives Monastery]
"Why are you all so quiet all the time?" I say, still whispering at him in this hoarse voice.
"We are teachers and workers," he says, "not talkers."
"Workers, O.K.," I say, "but how can a teacher be quiet all the time and teach anybody anything?"
"Christ was the best," he says, thinking of something. "He lived thirty-three years. Thirty years he kept quiet; three years he talked. Ten to one for
keeping quiet."
... Franc Smith, Harry Vernon at Prep

Posted by Ruth at 12/04/2002