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"Finally, there were a great many people who did not want treatment and did not ask anything, since in any nation the majority of people are healthy and have no questions. These people had heard that simply beholding Arseny was auspicious, and so they came to have a look at him."

"Time was coming apart at the seams, like a wayfarer's traveling bag, and it was showing its contents to the wayfarer, who contemplated them as if for the first time."

“Or maybe all winters had blended into one and no longer had anything to do with time. They just become winter.”

“Arseny did not need a fourth wall: there was an entrance there instead.

The nuns kept an eye on the work but said nothing to Arseny.”

"You know, with all this hoarded junk, we will not rise in the wake of our risen Savior."

On my money, this novel has the most convincingly unique medieval environment I’ve ever experienced— from describing the permeation of faith into matters of everyday life, grammarye books, to the medieval method of reading (aloud, softly, with your finger tracing across the lines on each page). The fledgling medievalist in me is astounded by this deft portrayal of these historical details!