VOLTAIRE

Voltaire ends Candide with il faut cultiver notre jardin — abandon the metaphysical optimism and tend the plot you have. CoCA's Final Vow (§3.4.3) — to bring the magic to every meeting and treat time with respect — is the same instruction inflected for the institutional register. We do not predict the field. We tend the room. The plot is the office. The cultivation is the Liturgy.