The Magical World of Madame Métier by Daphne Rose Kingma

Author:Daphne Rose Kingma [Kingma, Daphne Rose]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2017-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

Monsieur Sorbonne Has a Crisis of Faith

Upon arriving at work the next morning, Monsieur Sorbonne felt strangely deprived. Having spent such a remarkable time with Madame Métier, everything he was doing seemed useless. What difference did it make if he sorted out and cataloged pot shards? Who cared if he could definitively distinguish an Anglo-Saxon from a Gaelic razor blade? Would people, en masse, stop filling the sky with burned oil or learn to keep their trash off the road? Would anyone’s spirit be lifted? Would anyone’s broken heart be healed?

It seemed suddenly all so ridiculous, what he was doing—of no merit whatsoever. He felt utterly despairing. He had found a job that he thought would have meaning only to discover now its total meaninglessness.

He was having, he realized, as he stared at the thick gray walls of his cell in the basement of the Artifacts Museum (which, suddenly, looked like the walls of a prison), a crisis of faith of his own. What was it Madame Métier had said to him only last evening? That each doubt must be encountered, alchemized, and transformed so that in its place there would come an even clearer vision of one’s calling.

Well, here, certainly, was his doubt, a doubt of existential proportions, a dilemma with gigantic horns. But how could he, as she suggested, encounter, transform, let alone “alchemize”—to use her mysterious word—his own doubt? He hadn’t the slightest idea. Affected as he now was, he found himself completely unable to work. Therefore, although it was barely eleven o’clock in the morning, he closed up his room and went out on the streets for a walk.

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