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...make it obey." The speaker is Simon Bolivar, the South American liberator; the time, 1812; the occasion, an earthquake which, by some terrible stroke of malice, has shattered the cities controlled by Venezuela's rebellious republicans but left untouched the cities loyal to the Spanish king. A royalist monk shouts to the dazed people of Caracas that the cause of their misfortune stands before them: Bolivar. The crowd begins to seethe menacingly. Without a word, Bolivar strides up to the monk and strikes him down with the flat of his sword. The crowd melts away...
Some of the most soaring religious poetry ever written was composed by a tiny 16th Century Spanish monk called Juan de la Cruz-John of the Cross. From his bald head to the soles of his sandals, John was a contemplative, shy, silent mystic...
...book was an instant bestseller; its ribald irreverence made Rabelais famous to the laity, infamous to the clergy. It did not help his case that he was a lapsed monk, and the known father of a bastard. The rest of his life (he lived to be close to 60) was spent under the continual threat of the Inquisitional stake...
Panurge has a flea in his ear who keeps suggesting that he get married. With Pantagruel and a bawdy monk named Friar John of the Funnels, Panurge sets out for India to consult the Oracle of the Holy Bottle on the matter. On the way they encounter a race of people whose noses are formed like the ace of clubs, and a nation that eats & drinks nothing but wind...
...Captain Monk Aiello took scoring honors for the Yardling lacrosse team with 11 goals and 12 assists-roughly 28 percent of the squad's total of 111 tallies, it was learned yesterday...