[Age of Reason]

I thought that Buddhist priests were supposed to be the epitomy of serenity and above-it-all-ness. My,my...

I wouldn't know.

But several thousand priests in a town would be a lot, wouldn't it? So maybe they were wannabe priests or something.

Or maybe they just had stupified looks on their faces from all the meditation, and Orwell took it personal.

[razorbak]

Or maybe they did what the eyewitness said.