Raf’s Vows

In his novel, Thy Fiefdom Comes, David KoChin marks out Raf as a young man guided by a firm and unyielding set of virtues. Raf believes that these virtues can help him to become a better man. When he meets Miriam however, some of those virtues slip. Should true love sway virtues? Or the other way around? Here’s a list of them:

• Get up before the saur bellows twice. This is a post-apocalyptic interpretation of waking up at a fixed time. In our era, it is called the ‘day’s first battle’ or the ‘heroic minute’. It is called these things for a reason. Can one overcome his laziness before the day is even started?
• No useless thoughts until papa is free (you may also notice that Jet lives the same basic principle: “Imagination is the madwoman of the house…” during the feast scene)
• Small and frequent mortifications strengthen the fortification of the will. Mortification seems very much linked to the latin word for ‘death’. This is true, mortification leads to the death of bad habits and ‘disease of the soul’. By doing this, mortification allows for the restoration of the soul’s true life. Fortification simply means to ‘make like a fort’. That is to say, to strengthen something to fortress-like impregnability.
• Purity and chastity in thought and deed
• more coming soon!

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