Request

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Fri Mar 17 13:01:41 CST 2006


beginning of stone junction?

rich

On 3/16/06, Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From IJ:
> " . . .seeing now the upraised hatchet and demonized face of the M.S., the
> unsaved Vice-nun has a moment of epiphanic anti-recidivist spiritual
> clarity, and averts Blood Sister's demapping by leaping across the office
> and cold-cocking the Mother Superior with a large decorative mahogany
> Christian object so symbolically obvious it needn't even be named, the
> object's symbolic unsubtlety making both Hal and Bridget Boone cringe. Now
> Blood Sister has the Champlain-era hatchet, and the unsaved nun who'd
> saved
> her has an unnamed object whose mahogany's no match for a hatchet, and
> they
> stand facing each other over the prone Mother Superior's puddle of skirts
> .
> . ."
>
> Does this location and do these characters remind anyone of something?
>
>
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