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The seminary student was on thin ice. The fathers had told him he needed to get serious and study his latin. In fact, they gave him the task of presenting the Easter mass on the hill.
Rather than learn the latin, he took the scroll and had a friend write it our phonetically. He then burried the scroll on the hill with the plan to dig it up early Sunday and place it on the lectern. His friend rolled over on him and told the fathers. They replaced the scroll with the proper latin version.
Come Sunday, the student could not give the mass and he was expelled from seminary.
The reason? He didn't know his mass from a scroll in the ground.
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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet
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