Blog Post #5

"The little monk: The Pope wouldn't receive him. No more discussions about science.
Fed: That was his last hope. It's true what he told him years back in Rome when he was still Cardinal Barberini: We need you. Now they've got him.
Andrea: They'll kill him. The Discorsi will never get finished.
Fed: You think so?
Andrea: Because he'll never recant.
The little monk: You keep getting quite irrelevant thoughts when you can't sleep. Last night for instance I kept on thinking, he ought never to have left the Venetian Republic.
Andrea: He couldn't write his book there.
Fed: And in Florence he couldn't publish it.
The little monk: I also wondered if they'd let him keep his little stone he always carries in his pocket. His proving stone." (Scene 13 pg. 91)

After reading the Life of Galileo, the start of this scene was interesting to me because of the little monk mentioning if they would let him keep his proving stone. I just thought it was funny because throughout the whole play Galileo was always backing up his statements with some type of reason and it was continuously neglected; like how he used the proving stone to show that people should ask the question "why?" when thinking about any subject. I think that it was important that the little monk thought about it because in scene 8, Galileo had the monk questioning what was actually real after the little monk has been brought up on a strict belief system based on political and religious factors.