"I glance swiftly down at the leaves open on the tables. Each...

"I glance swiftly down at the leaves open on the tables. Each lectern holds an ancient book and a new. The ink wells are covered, the quills sharpened to a nib, and the books wait here with half-complete lines of drying ink. As always, these monks work to inscribe the secrets of the ancients."
— from the novel Sinful Folk
PHOTO: “Library in the monastery of the San Francisco Church [Lima, Peru]” (Photo Jason Pearce)