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"I turn my ear to a proverb. I explain my riddle with a lyre."
- Psalm 49:4

The Beatryce Prophecy

11/17/2021

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​The world is not always a kind place, said Brother Edik.

We may lose those we love along the way, but unexpected friends, like a goat, can bring delight and comfort.

Yes, a goat. In Kate DiCamillo’s The Beatryce Prophecy, the monks of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowings are harassed by an ornery goat, one that soon finds a different purpose in comforting a lost girl.

Beatryce is found by Brother Edik, who long ago foretold that a girl child “will unseat a king.” But Beatryce doesn’t remember why she fled her home. She doesn’t know she might be important.

“Will you write of this in the Chronicles?” she asked. “Will you say that a girl named Beatryce, who does not know where she came from or who her people are, held on to a goat and sorrowed?”

“Yes,” said Brother Edik from above her. “It will be written so.”

“As something that happened?” said Beatryce. “Or as something that has yet to happen? Will I become a prophecy?”
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“Oh, Beatryce,” said Brother Edik.
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