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On lentils and holiness.

Once, when Jo and I were contemplating the academic life, our adviser told us tales of his days as a starving student in London, wandering from library to library, speaking to no human being beside his local bartender and the occasional hobo, and surviving, as had his forebearers the early-medieval desert hermit, on boiled lentils [...]