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| bbdc479 | Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist. | nunnery monks quest cannibalism search | Tahir Shah | |
| 6f7b6bb | The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's? | monks pedophilia misogyny hypocrisy lust vice sin | Umberto Eco |