Master Monk Guan

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    Such thought such though have I that hold it tight
    Till meditation master all its parts,
    Nothing can stay my glance
    Until that glance run in the world’s despite
    To where the damned have howled away their hearts,
    And where the blessed dance....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    At the time there was a claustral monk named Frere Jean of the Hashes, who was young, gallant, joyful, good natured, dextrous, bold, adventurous, thoughtful, tall, thin, with a capacious mouth, gifted in the nose, a great dispatcher of hours, quite an accomplisher of masses, a quick doer-in of vigils,—to put it in a nutshell, a true monk if ever there’s been one since this monk of a world first monked out a monk; moreover, a cleric to his very teeth in matters of the breviary.
    François Rabelais (1494–1553)