Attempts to resolve the Quandary:
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The pallid light cast damask shadows over the cell as the Franciscan eremite murmured something incoherent about lentils, Mary Magdalene, and Billy Joel. (by luigi)
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With a sigh, he turned his pallid eyes towards the tortuous road disappearing into the horizon; his thoughts neared Sophia’s standing silhouette beside the window, but his body would not follow; he felt himself stuck to his chair, as if suddenly he thought himself an eremite; Tolstoy came to his mind, while his fingers unfolded the damask table linen, his mind almost incoherently subduing his agitated thoughts about what the future might be. (by Margot Jack)
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The center piece of the Brigadier’s table was his captured eremite, supposedly a devote of the Goddess Kali, who, as it turned out, proved himself quite a bloodthirsty fellow when he threw off his garlands of Gardenias shouting some incoherent Hindi gibberish, sliced through half the guests with a steak knife - ruining the poor Brigadiers exquisite damask tablecloth - and scurried out over the roof tops leaving us all quite shocked and pallid. (by gumo420)
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"After the match you were arrested outside the restaurant at 1.30 a.m., clad only in a damask tablecloth and leading a rowdy, drunken conga of football supporters; your responses to the constable's questions were wildly incoherent, and we cannot now accept your later pallid excuse that you are a lapsed eremite deserving of our compassion and munificence." (by Bud Myte)
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George wondered whether the "Wan" in Obi-Wan Kenobi meant "pallid" or was simply a clever way of spelling "Juan"; whether the name of the eremite Jedi Yoda was Sanskrit or Hebrew; whether Amidala (damask-cheeked and almond-eyed under her traditional face paint mask) was meant to suggest the amygdala or just almonds in general ; and whether musing incoherently about such matters was as rewarding for others as it was for him. (by cusheamus)
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Ten years as a cave-dwelling eremite had turned Erwin into a pallid incoherent wraith, prone to sporadic psoriatic flares which dotted his body with lesions the size of damask roses. (by sionnach)
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The eremite seeks closeness with God, but in the absence of human company his speech, and in turn his prayers grow incoherent, and his heart – like a wilting damask – grows pallid. (by Rudi)