[dream] In the monastery, 070809

A dozen priests and a dozen nuns live in a remote monastery up in the mountains. The late night supper is taking place in a dimly lit hall, with a humble meal fit for such setting. The nuns are as saintly as can be, and they sit quietly in their seats. The priests, on the other hand, are all thugs. They are disorganized and boisterous as they stand around the table.

Elsewhere in the cloister, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, represented in five thick encyclopedic volumes of books, are deteriorating, rapidly, visibly.