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10. You probably want to hold off on the last two of the trilogy.

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #9)

Tue Nov 19, 2024, 06:18 PM

Nov 19

However, the Twilight book has some hopeful passages about what can be done on a small scale even if everything else is going to hell...and that's really all most of us can hope for anyway. Berman describes people who do this much-needed work as "secular monks", basically, preserving important knowledge and skills. He coins a term for them: "New Monastic Individuals".

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