here's the last installment of the stories of Ahab, St. Savin and the frontier town of Viscos.
I have already told you about the meeting between Saint Savin and Ahab, but I realised that I had (deliberately?) left it out.
Before Savin went to sleep in Ahab’s house, the two chatted for a while. Even though Ahab had begun to sharpen his knife the moment the saint set foot in his house, safe in the knowledge that the world around him was a reflection of himself, he was determined to challenge the saint; thus he asked him:
“If tonight, the most beautiful prostitute in the village came in here, would you be able to see her as neither beautiful nor seductive?”
“No, but I would be able to control myself.”
“And if I offered you a pile of gold coins to leave your cave in the mountain to join us, would you be able to look at that gold and see only pebbles?”
“No, but I would be able to control myself.”
“And if you were sought by two brothers, one of whom hated you, and the other who saw you as a saint, would you be able to feel the same towards them both?”
“It would be very hard, but I would be able to control myself sufficiently to treat them both the same.”
It was all a matter of control. Nothing more and nothing less.
Before Savin went to sleep in Ahab’s house, the two chatted for a while. Even though Ahab had begun to sharpen his knife the moment the saint set foot in his house, safe in the knowledge that the world around him was a reflection of himself, he was determined to challenge the saint; thus he asked him:
“If tonight, the most beautiful prostitute in the village came in here, would you be able to see her as neither beautiful nor seductive?”
“No, but I would be able to control myself.”
“And if I offered you a pile of gold coins to leave your cave in the mountain to join us, would you be able to look at that gold and see only pebbles?”
“No, but I would be able to control myself.”
“And if you were sought by two brothers, one of whom hated you, and the other who saw you as a saint, would you be able to feel the same towards them both?”
“It would be very hard, but I would be able to control myself sufficiently to treat them both the same.”
It was all a matter of control. Nothing more and nothing less.
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