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7. He gave a great, wordless cry, seemingly both of pain and triumph, and fell forward full-length on the earthen floor (123).
The afflicted brother's struggles are both painful and beautiful in the eyes of the monks who believe in the rightful nature of their quest or wish to believe in it for self-interested reasons.
8. Have all your household party and friends gather at the chapel to watch the grave opened, and make sure that Peredur attends (133).
The opening of the grave becomes a gathering place of all of the likely suspects as well as a kind of truth-telling about the real nature of Brother Jerome's visions.
9. Instead of being full to the stopper with the thick, sweet syrup, the bottle was three-quarters empty (150).
This shows how Cadfael's knowledge of herbs and the properties of matter help him solve the murder. He uses reason, rather than faith alone to find...
Do you think you can deceive me as you deceive your prior and your brothers? (165).
Because of his knowledge of the world outside the monastery, Cadfael is lest apt to be deceived by religious fraudulence. He has analytical mind like a detective, not just faith in visions.
11 a dream of a hot knife-blade slicing deftly through the thick wax of a seal without ever disturbing the device (192).
Fraudulent religious visions propel the monk's pilgrimage to Wales, but after the murder, also provide clues as to who committed the crime, as visions are used to excuse hard evidence.
12. There's a lot of merit in silence (194).
Silence means death -- but there is also peace in silence, one of the reasons that Cadfael has chosen the silent life of a religious vocation, as well as the silent peace of the monk's order returning to normal.
Part of the delight of reading a Morbid Taste for Bones is that the relatively limited nature of science means that the author of the work must focus on human character, rather than laboratory means of detecting the criminal. There is no implicating DNA evidence to be found on a bow and arrow. But there is also a very 21st century emphasis on the value of reason in all of
Again, Peters chooses words carefully to delineate the dramatic situation, to illuminate the nature of both characters, and to create a tension that holds the reader as Sioned makes her proposal and is granted it as a "loyal daughter" (146). Peters is also skillful at evoking thoughts and emotions by outward signs that can be observed and described. When the Prior, Brother Richard, Father Cadfael, and the others ride to
" (68) These words cement the dramatic conclusion of Chapter 4 of A Morbid Taste for Bones -- and begin the central, driving murder mystery that lies at the heart of the plot of the tale. Brother Cadfael and the Prior of the Abbey are on a pilgrimage to a town in Wales to visit the shrine of Saint Winifred. The Prior of his Abbey hopes that these relics, if