BEg2 chapter 10 dipping into the Windust dossier

[Joseph Tracy]

I was trying to get at P’s use of “everyone there” but what Mark and you are saying seems equally or even more fundamental.

> On Jan 1, 2022, at 1:00 PM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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