VLVL2 (9.5): "Sister Rochelle"

[Dave Monroe]

"DL flew back to California, homing brainlessly in
once again on the Kunoichi Retreat, where she'd been
coming since her adolescence, then leaving, then
coming back again, building a long-term love-hate
affair with the Attentive staff, Sister Rochelle in
particular." (VL, Ch. 9, p. 153)


"The Kunoichi Retreat"

kunoichi = female + sword = lady ninja, e.g. ...

http://imdb.com/title/tt0187224/

http://www.kungfucinema.com/reviews/kunoichiladyninja.htm

http://www.cityonfire.com/japanese/kunoichi.html

Cf. The Rubber Rose Ranch?  Let me know ...

Robbins, Tom.  Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.
   Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/0-553-89789-6.html


"Sister Rochelle"

Cf. Bonanza Jellybean?  However ...

ROCHELLE   f   French
French feminine form of ROCCO. Otherwise it could
derive from the name of a French city meaning "little
rock".

ROCCO   m   Italian
Italian name derived from the Germanic element hrok
meaning "rest". This was name of a 14th-century saint
who nursed victims of the plague, but eventually
contracted the disease himself. He is the patron saint
of the sick.

http://www.behindthename.com/nm/r2.html

But cf. as well ...

PETER   m   English, German, Scandinavian, Biblical
Pronounced: PEE-tur
Derived from Greek petros meaning "stone". In the New
Testament Jesus gave the apostle Simon the name Cephas
(meaning "stone" in Aramaic) which was translated
Peter in many versions of the Bible (compare Matthew
16:18 and John 1:42). Simon Peter was the most
prominent of the apostles during Jesus's ministry and
he is considered by some to be the first pope. This
name was also borne by Peter the Great, the czar of
Russia who defeated Sweden in the Great Northern War
in the 18th century.

http://www.behindthename.com/nm/p.html

http://www.behindthename.com/

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