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You, Franciscans, however,
belong to an Order...
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where merriment is viewed
with indulgence.
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Yes, it's true. Saint Francis
was much disposed to laughter.
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Laughter is a devillish wind which
deforms the lineaments of the face...
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and makes men look
like monkeys.
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Monkeys do not laugh.
Laughter is particular to man.
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As a sin.
Christ never laughed.
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Can we be so sure?
:33:29
There is nothing in the
Scriptures to say that He did.
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And there's nothing there
to say that He did not.
:33:34
Even the saints have been known
to employ comedy...
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to ridicule the enemies
of the faith.
:33:40
For example, when the
pagans plunged Saint Maurus...
:33:43
into the boiling water,
he complained...
:33:44
that his bath was cold.
The Sultan put his hand in...
:33:48
- and scalded himself.
- A saint...
:33:50
immersed in boiling water
does not play childish tricks.
:33:55
He restrains his cries
and suffers for the truth.
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And yet, Aristotle devoted his second
book of poetics to comedy...
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as an instrument of truth.
:34:09
You have read this work?
:34:10
No, of course not.
It's been lost for many centuries.
:34:13
No, it is not!
It was never written!
:34:16
Because Providence doesn't
want futile things glorified.
:34:20
- Oh, that I must contest...
- Enough!
:34:23
This abbey is overshadowed by grief.
Yet you would...
:34:26
intrude on our sorrow
with idle banter!
:34:32
Forgive me, Venerable Jorge.
My remarks were truly out of place.
:34:42
Which was the Greek
translator's desk?
:34:45
This one.
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Come, Adso.