10 Things (IP)

My, you are inquisitive. Haha, my little joke. 10 things? That would suggest I had made 10 mistakes. I ask myself, Tomás, is that likely? Even so, let it not be said that I am unreasonable. Things I might have done differently? I'd have spent less time as a cook in that dingy monastery in Valladolid. There, prima res. Hmm... I'd have persuaded Our Lady of the Fly that the Holy Brotherhood were not powerful enough. I'd have asked her to invent some interesting sins, carnal at least, those hours in the royal confessional were most tedious. 'I contradicted Ferdinand in front of the servants today.' Saints preserve us. Tres res, I think we have reached, Señor.

I think I should have paid a little less attention to Sixtus' missive on our endeavours. Indeed, did he not write it before I assumed control of our holy task? A propos, I wish I had not the misfortune to live only until three-score and eighteen. Had I been a Methuselah I could have tested the faith of so many more. Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross would, I fancy, have met quite different fates had they crossed my path. How many is that? Another three? Sex res, then, Señor de las Moscas. Shall we continue? I'd have wasted less time on conversos. The Jew and the Moor themselves should have suffered as the false converts did. The girls would have been 10 and the boys 12, evil is much younger than I thought then. Cum octo reibus sumus, Principe de la Oscuridad?

I would have burned the manual of instructions. For it to appear publicly so long after my death: it was not fitting. Una res remaining? Saved more, I should have saved more. More Autos de Fe, more more more... then, perhaps, I would not be having this conversation with you, my horned friend?

My, you are inquisitive. Haha, my little joke. 10 things? That would suggest I had made 10 mistakes. I ask myself, Tomás, is that likely? Even...