MMV LPPM "Only One Course to Take"

[Dave Monroe]

"He figured there were about sixty seconds to make a
decision, and now the still small Jesuit voice,
realizing that the miracle was in his hands after all,
for real, vaunted with the same sense of exhiliration
Siegel had once felt seeing five hundred hysterical
freshmen advancing on the women's dorms, knowing it
was he who had set it all in motion. And the other,
gentle part of him sang kaddishes for the dead and
mourned over the Jesuit's happiness, realizing however
that this kind of penance was as good as any other; it
was just unfortunate that Irving Loon would be the
only one partaking of any body and blood, divine or
otherwise. It took no more than five seconds for the
two sides to agree that there was really only one
course to take.
   "Quietly Siegel strolled back through the kitchen,
through the living room, taking his time, unnoticed by
the crap shooters, opened the door, stepped out into
the hall and closed the door behind him. He walked
downstairs, whistling. At the first floor landing, he
heard the first screams, the pounding of footsteps,
the smashing of glass. He shrugged. What the hell,
stranger things had happened in Washington. It was not
until he had reached the street that he heard the
first burst of the BAR fire."


"the still small Jesuit voice"

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"kaddishes for the dead"

http://www.jewfaq.org/prayer/kaddish.htm

Kaddish is commonly known as a mourner's prayer, but
in fact, variations on the Kaddish prayer are
routinely recited at many other times, and the prayer
itself has nothing to do with death or mourning. The
prayer begins "May His great Name grow exalted and
sanctified in the world that He created as He willed.
May He give reign to His kingship in your lifetimes
and in your days ..." and continues in much that vein.
The real mourner's prayer is El Molai Rachamim, which
is recited at grave sites and during funerals.

http://www.jewfaq.org/death.htm


"BAR fire"

Recall ...

"A Klee original was on the wall facing them; two
crossed BAR's, hunting rifles and a few sabres hung
around the other walls." (MMV, p. 6)

BAR = Browning Automatic Rifle

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But why "only one course to take"?  Again ...


		
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