BEg2 chapter 10 dipping into the Windust dossier

[Michael Bailey]

Both valid, although technically Catholicism was always transnational…
thanks for the additions, Mark.


Another thing might be that Windust doesn’t have any friends, so even the
crowd at his wedding are basically strangers - and “about to become
strangers” might apply to the bride’s party who in this case aren’t gaining
a son, but actually losing a daughter to this monster



On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 4:44 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> The bride and groom are also "already or about to become" strangers is how
> I read it.
>
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 3:13 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [Windust] met, courted, and married—as his nameless biographers put it,
>> “deployed into a spousal scenario with”—a very young local girl named
>> Xiomara.
>>  For a minute Maxine imagines a wedding sequence out in the jungle, with
>> pyramids, native Mayan rituals, psychedelics. But no, instead it was in
>> the
>> sacristy at the local Catholic church, everyone there already or about to
>> become strangers . . .
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m beguiled and stumped - “in the sacristy at the local Catholic church,
>> everyone there already or about to become strangers…”
>>
>> Already or about to become strangers?
>>
>> Not being technically Catholic myself (though I think they claim
>> everybody,) I sometimes wonder about  what I’m missing.
>> At best I think of something like that Pink Floyd line, “calls the
>> faithful
>> to their knees, to hear the softly spoken magic spell”
>>
>> Related to that would the Windust nups be such a sacrilege as to estrange
>> everyone there - and from whom? Each other? Themselves?
>> https://youtu.be/b_-YfmyXlMo
>>
>>
>> Or would the disjunctions perpetrated by the neoliberal fever dream cause
>> the estrangement, despite Windust’s attempt to observe the forms, which in
>> and of itself - wasn’t so evil?
>>
>> There’s a tenet that even a wicked priest can confer sacraments &
>> blessings, right?
>>
>> But can an unholy recipient receive grace?
>>
>> Even I know there’s stipulations.
>>
>>
>> Tangential or related -
>>
>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/06/09/4-men-convicted-in-murder-of-guatemalan-bishop/52d264b1-4d98-4df7-bb6a-edefce8441a5/
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