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I love your thoughts on Frere Simon. Interesting that both Jean Guy and the older monk gave him the benefit of the doubt by saying that his “nosiness” or curiosity were just a yearning for knowledge about the outside world. Maybe he had chosen the monastic life for the wrong reasons. As the Archbishop explains to Armand, some monks are hiding ” from that voice inside most young men that whispers that they are unloveable.” (228)
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