“Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.” That’s it. It’s what you pray silently inside yourself anyway, so you may as well have it out in the open.’ ‘Hmmm,’ said Arthur. ‘Well, thank you—’ ‘There’s another prayer that goes with it that’s very important,’ continued the old man, ‘so you’d better jot this down, too.’ ‘OK.’ ‘It goes, “Lord, lord, lord . . .” It’s best to put that bit in, just in case.
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