Synthesist TWO - Will Parfitt

(even nicer interior of Nature sanctuary with soft lines and pretty pattern on floor which
is probably dead symbolic of something or other)
People are supposed to come and meditate here, though in fact almost nobody does as
it’s usually full of tourists. Instead they go and meditate in the main Sanctuary…
(Ash, practising the Insufferable Smugness of Being in the main Sanctuary; not a great
work of architecture like the Nature Sanctuary; just a plain cedarwood building, but
excellent for smugness)
My friends and family seem to regard the whole meditating malarky as yet another of
the weird things that I derive pleasure from (e.g. vegetarianism, homosexuality, having
friends), and are happy for me to just get on with. Douglas has a similar attitude, and
particularly approves of mediation as a) it makes me more mellow; useful for when he’s
being particularly exasperating (which would be most of the time…) and b) it gives him
a chance to sneak off and eat cake…
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