Psellos wrote to Ioannes Xiphilinos about following him to Olympos. He felt both present with and absent from his friend in epistolary terms. He would soon follow him to the monastery, at the third (not eleventh) hour by the parable of the vineyard, using neither his wife nor newly-purchased estate as an excuse. He authorised the monk bringing the letter to take over (Megala) Kellia, a monastery just given to Psellos