Pratchett: Create Wisdom Not Far From The Listening Monks Poem by Margaret Alice

My deepest wish is to reach Enlightenment Country
where people know there are no machines, only the
idea of machines even if they still use computers,
where there are no fax machines, begging the
question why people keep sending faxes

Where we know there is no administration, even if
we still register all procedures, where we name
things that don’t exist such as hope, dreams and
visions, where we search for the essence of being
and the seat of the soul

A place where we create Wisdom - not far from the
Listening Monks listening to the echoes of the sound
that played the universe into existence, near the
Balancing Monks restoring the world’s equilibrium
with special weights

Right next to the History Monks who are seeing to
it that tomorrow happens according to plan – this
is the place of my Dreams where I wish to be, I
hope I will meet you there…

Terry Pratchett, “Thief of Time”p.40 & 41