SINNED AGAINST, AND SINNING
The Vatican seeks to redeem itself with a new law on handling that grave ecclesiastical crime of raping children. So grave is that crime, in fact, as to land in the same category as attempts to ordain women.
O to be a fly on the wall during these discussions. I imagine an enormous punch-bowl, filled with holy water, Night Train and pot-luck prescription meds. "Without children, there is no scandal! How do we put the noli noli noli on Eve?"
These guys are high, and determined to kill their own hierarchy. Zombies with hookahs, illumined by gilt.
HERR KEPLER'S NOTEBOOK
Time is the bully anchor of the opposing tug-rope team.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
I was particularly struck by this last moment of idiocy, too. So gratuitous.
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