On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Bill East wrote:
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> >>Monks were regularly assigned to read here, while their brethern ate
> >>in silence (presumably the same happened in houses of nuns, but I
> >>have not seen any direct evidence of this).
>
> Not so much of the past tense! The practice continues to this day in
> monastic houses, both male and female.
In fact, a couple of years ago I was staying in a monastery for a week
and each night the reading consisted of a chapter of Bill Gates' _The
Information Superhighway_.
Jo Ann
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