| 010. Has The World Changed, Or Have I?
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[11 Oct 1976|02:03am] |
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It's rather too quiet in the Gryffindor dorms lately, which is something I never believed that I would say. It certainly isn't that I mind the quiet, because God knows that I don't. I am perfectly capable of enjoying long moments of silence, and I have been known to seek them out, but this is an eerie sort of silence in which one cannot help but wait for the other shoe to drop, so to speak. The nature of a Gryffindor dormitory is not to be quiet, but to be loud, boisterous and irritating, and when it is otherwise, it is incredibly unsettling for all those around to experience it. Though I would hate to encourage my dormmates to amend the situation.
The general quiet environment, however, which has extended to the common room in a far less severe fashion, has been very conducive to reading. I have been rifling through a few books I had meant to read a long time ago and am just now getting to, since I decided to abandon the Satyricon until further notice. Honestly, Rabelais, whose works I settled on isn't all that much better, but it seems like it has been a long time since I've read any French literature. The Abbey described in chapter 52 of Gargantua is quite an unusual and interesting phenomenon, though. Rather comical, which was Rabelais's intent, I'm sure, but sort of an interesting concept. It's a little microcosm of the community without walls, without clocks, without the typical restrictions that an Abbey imposes, so it's very, very little like an Abbey. It begs the question, is there something inherently spiritual about a spiritual place, or do the rules and restrictions set in place by an organized religion make something more or less spiritually connected? Do these monks and nuns who live in the Abbey constructed by Gargantua feel any less connected to a higher power because they are allowed to marry and to come and go as they please, or are they, perhaps, more connected, as they come of their own volition?
Who knows?
Salvete Omnes,
Remus J. Lupin
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