Overview
An abbot notices his brothers have lost the habit of silence. He writes to them about it. The letter runs to eleven pages.
A monastery. Twelve months. One old monk, four surviving novices, and a bench in a corridor because he never could get the chapter house.
Brother Anselm tells one story a month: the competition whose winner was carved into the lintel before the interviews began. The reorganisation that moved eighty men in the rain and left the leaking roof exactly where it was. The brother made answerable for a number that turned out to measure the weather. The wellbeing hour that had to be announced by buying another bell. The complaint that was handled correctly at every single step, which was the injury.
None of the houses in this book ever stood. Every one of them will be familiar.
Sharp, dry and unexpectedly moving, A Range of Views Was Expressed is a short book about the things institutions do to decent people without anyone ever doing anything wrong, and about the one question Anselm doesn't answer until December, when the novices finally work out which of the twelve stories was his.
Twelve parables. About 14,000 words. Roughly ninety minutes, or one delayed flight.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798194247684
- ISBN-10: 9798194247684
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: August 2026
- Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.22 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.18 pounds
- Page Count: 84
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