GR translation: Yes well Pirate’s Chapel himself.

[Mike Jing]

V546.13-41  “My little brother” (Pirate understands the connection she has
made) “left home at 18. I liked to watch him sleeping at night. His long
eyelashes . . . so innocent . . . I watched for hours . . . . He got as far
as Antwerp. Before long he was loitering around parish churches with the
rest of them. Do you know what I mean? Young, Catholic males. Camp
followers. They got to depend on alcohol, many of them, at an early age.
They would choose a particular priest, and become his faithful
dog—literally wait all night at his doorstep in order to talk to him fresh
from his bed, his linen, the intimate smells that had not yet escaped the
folds of his garment . . . insane jealousies, daily jostling for position,
for the favors of this Father or that. Louis began to attend Rexist
meetings. He went out to a soccer field and heard Degrelle tell the crowd
that they must let themselves be swept away by the flood, they must act,
act, and let the rest take care of itself. Soon my brother was out in the
street with his broom, along with the other guilty sarcastic young men with
their brooms in their hands . . . and then he had joined Rex, the ‘realm of
total souls,’ and the last I heard he was in Antwerp living with an older
man named Philippe. I lost track of him. We were very close at one time.
People took us for twins. When the heavy rocket attacks began against
Antwerp I knew it could not be an accident . . . .”
       Yes well Pirate’s Chapel himself. “But I’ve wondered about the
solidarity of your Church . . . you kneel, and she takes care of you . . .
when you are acting politically, to have all that common momentum,
taking you upward—”
       “You never had that either, did you.” She’s been looking really at
him—”none of the marvelous excuses. We did everything ourselves.”
       No, there’s no leaving shame after all—not down here—it has to be
swallowed sharp-edged and ugly, and lived with in pain, every day.

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