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...name-brand intellectual lovers as social steppingstones. By that time, Vera has joined the flophouse choir of ministering angels, and Tom, in an uncharacteristically humble mood, is ready to see the light of salvation. He sees it in a piece of transcendent silliness and highly dubious analogizing by a nun who tells Tom that his fellow poet's drunkenness, homosexuality and suicide were simply signs of his perfervid search for God, roughly comparable to the quest and anguish of St. Catherine of Siena. At novel's end, Tom goes off to enlist in the growing army of flophouse...
...without a head as well, a phantom coach that rolled wildly through the front yard behind a brace of phantom horses. Also in the ghostly cast: a wistfully mourning lady variously identified as 1) Arabella Waldegrave, daughter of a 17th century local lord, 2) an English nun whose weakness for a monk in a monastery, said to have occupied the rectory site, had led to her being sealed up alive in a wall, and 3) a French nun, Marie Lairre, who had renounced her vows to become the bride of a Waldegrave only to be strangled and buried...
...place began acting up as it never had before. Keys shot out of their keyholes like projectiles. Bells rang with no one to ring them. Pebbles and candlesticks hurtled through the air. Rappings and tappings sounded from all sides like a telegraphers' convention. Even the ghostly nun Marie put in a polite appearance in honor of the visitor. Altogether, wrote Price later, "it was a day to be remembered even by an experienced investigator . . . Sixteen hours of thrills...
...profane use of them, but only to look at them in order that we may give thanks unto Thy name for Thy miracles, Thy deliverances and Thy wonders." On sidewalks and playgrounds, children are still playing with their dredel, the four-sided tops marked with the Hebrew letters nun, gimel, he and pe-first letters of the words ness gadol haya po (a great miracle happened here). Said one urchin this week to an onlooking grownup: "In other countries, the last letter on the dredel is shin for shama (there). Aren't we lucky to be here...
What does one give a bishop for Christmas? Or a Presbyterian seminarian? Or a nun? The advertising pages of denominational publications are full of suggestions. In this world of black and white, too, eyes are peeled for bargains ("Close-Out-BLACK SUITS-Only 52 Available"), and alert to style ("Nuns' Stylish Handbags-Outside Zipper Pocket...