What do you think? What should I do?

A retreat, my dear boys, signifies a withdrawal for a while from the cares of our life, the cares of this workaday world, in order to examine the state of our conscience, to reflect on the mysteries of holy religion and to understand better why we are here in this world."

Polite dinner calls for persiflage rather than in-depth possibly offensive discussion.

The term scotic (Gr. skotos, darkness) was therefore devised as the most apt term for the condition of virtual darkness.