ye old vatican II and Silk's mourning

maa32 · 27 Mar 2001, 23:08 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (whorl) ye old vatican II and Silk's mourning
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:08:11
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I think someone has already mentioned that the gashing of the flesh is a=20
typical pass time for mourners (see Orpine's funeral at the beginning of=20
Lake), so I read Silk's mutilation as excessive grieving rather than an=20
intentional suicide attempt.  Silk seems competent enough to me to pull off=
 a=20
sincere suicide.  However, his "psychological" retreat may indicate that hi=
s=20
awareness seeks to flee the "house" of his body, and that may be why he=20
refuses to admit who he really is.  Also,

"Crateowl" said:
>Now a small question. In LS, the span of Quetzal's time as _Prolocuter_
>(note Jahlee's comment that inhumi catch their prey with their tongues as
>someone pointed out on this list)is something like 30 years. The first
>meeting of Vatican II was in 1962, thirty years before the publication of
>NStLS. There are clearly parallels with the Prolocutor and the Pope.
>Quetzal's prothonotary is named Bull, for one. One of the decisions made at
>Vatican II was to allow the Mass to be said in the common tongue (if you
>will). When exactly did Viron lose it's high speech? Did any of you read
>recently about the exhumation of Pope JohnXXIII recently? His face was said
>to be remarkably _composed_ for a man long dead. I could'nt help putting
>this together with Whorlly things.  (Is World the past tense of Whorl?)
>
>Before I finish, one more thing,
>Was Uncle Gene referring to this list when he wrote of Pig's name
>choice?(pg. 45 RttW).
>
>I'll take the name Crateowl.

Hey, anyone notice all the changes to the roman catholic mass this past yea=
r? =20
Our Father is back in Latin, women can't touch certain things during=20
communion, all the servers have to wear robes, less kneeling, etc.  I wonde=
r=20
what Wolfe thinks about that?  Just an observation.
Marc Aramini

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