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Yes, there is

Nutscracker

But what&039;s a labyrinth doing in a cathedral?

UGLI 666

The first canon told me a labyrinth is a part of that church and many others, because it illustrates the full complexity of the Christian path

Nutscracker

The first canon?

UGLI 666

Yes But the second canon objected that the Christian path is as siht as an arrow And the twists and turns and dead-ends of the labyrinth symbolise sin, in which fallen souls wander, hopelessly lost And then the first canon replied that he had essentiallyin the straight line of the Christian path But no ht be, if the person walking it remains within the bosoood and evil ceases to apply, and the higher mathematics of the spirit coot a second canon as well

Monstradaher mathematics is that?

UGLI 666

However crooked and tortuous a life ard each infinitesiht And if any sector of his path is straight, then it is straight at any ht at any ht, and the Lord will not reject his soul It is as though we grow s that lift us up out of the depths of our degradation

Nutscracker

But who are these canons? You mean you met so on bended knees near the altar I made a noise, they noticed me and came over to help me with explanations and instructions

Nutscracker

Tell us about theo, when faith was strong in people&039;s souls, a priest could send a repentant sinner on a pilgrian to fail

Nutscracker

Not about the instructions, tell us about the canons themselves Don&039;t you understand, or what? No one else here has met anybody

Monstradamus

What about Ariadne?

Nutscracker

She only dreamed about them Surely I don&039;t have to explain the difference?

Monstradamus

Yes, explain it, Nutcracker

Nutscracker

You don&039;t understand the difference between a dream and reality?

Monstradamus

I don&039;t understand what the difference is between the two stories

Nutscracker

The difference is one&039;s about a dream and one&039;s about reality

Monstradamus

But all I can see are letters on a screen

Nutscracker

Not again You&039;ve worn ly, are you there?

UGLI 666

Yes

Nutscracker

These canons, what did they look like?

UGLI 666

Mediuht In threadbare cassocks, with old-fashioned, wide-brimmed cardinal&039;s hats on their heads The canons explained that the hats once belonged to holy prelates and they helped to calm the passions The second canon had the brim of his hat bent upwards at one side, like a duellist It reminded me of Aramis from &039;The Three Musketeers&039;, the one as an ordinary sinner at first, and then becaeneral of the order of Jesuits

Monstradamus

Sounds like the tarves that Ariadne saw at the very beginning

Nutscracker

That&039;s what I thought too But those were dwarves, and these two are ht are you?

UGLI 666

That has nothing to do with anything

Nutscracker

Forget it Let&039;s ly, did you see their faces?

UGLI 666

No They stood with their heads bowed, as befits monks and spiritual people, and the brims of their hats hid their features completely

Nutscracker

And ere their voices like?

UGLI 666

Humble and sincere

Nutscracker

What did they say?

UGLI 666

I started telling you that, but you interrupted They said that in the glorious times of the Holy Crusades, especially after the victory of Gottfried of Bouillon, pilgrirave of our Lord to repent Later, when faith greeaker and the hureat effort, the site of pilgrie was relocated to e to the local saint When people&039;s piety became too weak even for that, they were instructed to walk The League to do penance

Nutscracker

The League?

UGLI 666

Yes It&039;s the old name for the church labyrinth That&039;s approxi was a lot shorter You were supposed to walk through these labyrinths on your knees And for the time of ultimate decline that will come just before the end of the world, labyrinths on walls were prepared, really s the ith their finger They are for those who are only willing to spend a very small amount of time on their souls But there are labyrinths that are quite the opposite, endlessly long ones in which you can repent eternally For instance in the Church of Sta Maria-di-Trastavera in Rome The first canon showed me a plan of it

Monstradamus

He prepared well for the conversation

UGLI 666

He didn&039;t prepare for it The plans of the labyrinths were on the colu there was covered with them The one that&039;s in Sta Maria-di-Trastavera consists of a large nuet for shooting practice It&039;s the most mystical of all the labyrinths