The Pegasus Secret
“4 I shed my novice status shortly after our arrival at Blanchefort, taking my vows as a Brother of the Order of the Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon before the autumn harvest. I shed also my innocence and my faith, now I realize.
True to the inducements I had been offered, I supped on meat twice daily and bathed myself twice weekly until All Hallows’ Eve, when the air’s chill made it impractical to do and I was subjected to the body’s natural vermin once again. Even these deprivations see...med trivial, for I was allowed to change my vestments1 for clean ones weekly, thereby ridding myself of my small tormentors.
Not only did my belly grow with victuals far richer than those consumed by others in God’s service, but my knowledge increased its girth as well. I know now that I should have remembered Eve’s original sin in thirsting for forbidden knowledge, but like hers my mind possessed an unquenchable thirst. Uncontrolled lust for knowledge, forbidden or not, can be as deadly as carnal lust, as I was to discover all too late.MoreLess
True to the inducements I had been offered, I supped on meat twice daily and bathed myself twice weekly until All Hallows’ Eve, when the air’s chill made it impractical to do and I was subjected to the body’s natural vermin once again. Even these deprivations see...med trivial, for I was allowed to change my vestments1 for clean ones weekly, thereby ridding myself of my small tormentors.
Not only did my belly grow with victuals far richer than those consumed by others in God’s service, but my knowledge increased its girth as well. I know now that I should have remembered Eve’s original sin in thirsting for forbidden knowledge, but like hers my mind possessed an unquenchable thirst. Uncontrolled lust for knowledge, forbidden or not, can be as deadly as carnal lust, as I was to discover all too late.MoreLess
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