{"id":4755,"date":"2012-09-09T10:57:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T14:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?p=4755"},"modified":"2012-09-09T10:57:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T14:57:20","slug":"zombies-are-like-garlic-you-can-never-have-enough-of-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/09\/zombies-are-like-garlic-you-can-never-have-enough-of-either.html","title":{"rendered":"Zombies are like garlic, you can never have enough of either"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I\u2019ve subscribed to an epistolary novel, which may be of interest to readers of this blog. \u00a0It is titled\u00a0Ora et Labora et Zombies<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0Ora et labora<\/em> (pray and work) is a motto of the Benedictine monks;\u00a0et Zombies<\/em> is where the plot kicks in.<\/p>\n

The story is set in the present day. \u00a0There has been some kind of cataclysm, and our protagonist has retreated with his son to a Benedictine\u00a0monastery. \u00a0His wife was out of town as the crisis broke, so he is writing letters to her, in hopes that she will make it to their agreed upon meetup location and one day read them.<\/p>\n

If you subscribe to the story, one of the protagonist\u2019s letters is delivered to your house each week. \u00a0 I\u2019m four letters in, and I quite like the experience of reading the serial and just the pure fun of having a little chunk of novel show up in my mailbox. \u00a0I\u2019ve included an\u00a0excerpt\u00a0below, to tempt you.<\/p>\n

Is it possible that there are cupcakes at the end of the world? \u00a0Like a farewell party? \u00a0Brother Anselm baked them after dinner for us \u2014 not for the other monks, he joked, just for us visitors in the Retreat House. \u00a0They were yellow cake with chocolate frosting (my favorite), and he offered it to me with such joy that I didn\u2019t have the heart to tell him I\u2019d given up sweets for Lent. \u00a0So I took one, and it was a beautiful fleeting taste of normal life. \u00a0As I was savoring the last bite, I thought perhaps that giving up some paltry thing as\u00a0penance\u00a0rings a little hollow in our current situation. \u00a0It may well be that we are in the process of being made to give up everything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I feel compelled to add that when I went to college and saw the Grove Street\u00a0Cemetery<\/a>\u00a0for the first time, I thought the inscription over the gates was a student prank. \u00a0I didn\u2019t know the scripture reference, and I assumed some zombie-related hijinks were about to begin to welcome us to school.<\/p>\n

Oh, and speaking of that title, I had a great deal of success making rolls from this recipe for garlic sourdough bread<\/a>, except I added two cups of grated cheddar cheese and upped the amount of garlic to two heads. \u00a0Judging from their expressions when I unwrap a roll at lunch, my coworkers are at least part vampire.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve subscribed to an epistolary novel, which may be of interest to readers of this blog. \u00a0It is titled\u00a0Ora et Labora et Zombies. \u00a0Ora et labora (pray and work) is a motto of the Benedictine monks;\u00a0et Zombies is where the plot kicks in. 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