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Rabelais held up to ridicule the inner emptiness of so many monks who were his contemporaries. Yet Rabelais was not a layman criticizing from the outside: he was himself a monk and knew from the inside what he was writing about.

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 4 : Retreat Centres > # 196