The Explanation
(for those who require one)

And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."
-- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather

Nuns Gone Wild! #2


Original Caption:

Anaheim -- In orbit are Sister Euphemia and her co-pilot, Sister Michael James, as they ride the Tomorrowland rocket at Disneyland. Catholic schools were out on a special holiday and the park invited students and teachers to the park in a day set aside as 'Catholic School Day.' (1962)
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Lex10 said...

How many comments?
nun

October 05, 2008 12:53 PM
swac said...

Euphemia?

Any relation to Sister Mary Elephant?

October 06, 2008 11:44 PM

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