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May 06, 2005
Silence
For the middle of the day we shut power down in the offices and labs at work. At lot of people are out today.
The calm had me thinking about the monks in the Chartreuse who had taken vows silence. Christopher put it this way:
The monks having taken vows of silence were permitted to utter one sentence, collectively, per year. So they agreed to take turns.The first year, John's turn came around when the monks were having peas for dinner. "Mmm! Great peas," he said.
The next year, it was Greg's turn. "John, you were right about those great peas last year," he replied.
The third year, Fred had his chance to speak. "Guys, shut up about the peas for crying out loud!"
Posted by Mark at May 6, 2005 03:21 PM