human
And you have never grown tired of being here?
gpt
Never, during the five years that I have spent in this cloister, time, cut up as it is at La Trappe, seems short.
human
You are present at all the exercises of the Community?
gpt
Yes; I only replace manual labour by meditation in my cell; my position as oblate, however, dispenses me, if I so wish, from getting up at two o'clock to follow the night office, but it is a great joy to me to recite the magnificent Benedictine Psalter before daybreak--but you are listening to me, and eat nothing. Let me give you a little more rice.
human
The food is not bad, he said,
gpt
That is the warm oil with which the vegetables are dressed, you will soon grow accustomed to it, in a couple of days you will cease to notice it.
human
But in what consists, precisely, the part of an oblate?