Once
again the mockery of a free election was completed in America with the 1%
narrowing the field to two clones where the only real difference was Harvard or
Yale or some other trivial difference.
Frank enjoyed nipping at both their heels. He was a realist, he knew that no matter
how much print he expended the chances of being heard above the billions of
dollars was pretty slim, even though he wrote for a major paper.
Oddly,
five days before the election, Frank was reading the Guardian and noticed a
small two paragraph article about how a convent in Spain was suddenly abandoned
by all the sisters. They all
professed a complete lack of faith in the teachings of their Holy Mother
Church. Frank told me that I was to
remind him after the election of this strange story. I thought he probably was angling for a
winter trip to southern Spain after the election. I put his request in my memory calendar
and we then went to another boring debate.
And
so on the night of the election returns I reminded Frank of the article in the
Guardian.
“Oh,
thanks Jack. That was strange how a
convent of nuns would become atheists.
Seem highly improbable, just like Princess
Marianne.”
“Do
you think there is a connection?”
“Yes.”
“The
odds of that would be extremely low, Mr. Huntington.”
“Life
is full of long odds coming true. Book a flight to Madrid and from there let a
car so we can drive to whatever god forsaken town this nunnery is located
in.”
“That
would be Convento de Santa Clara in the city of Carmona. It is home to some 13 Poor Clare
Sisters, a sisterhood that adulates Saint Clare. The convent is 550 years old. According to the Guardian, after
denouncing Catholicism they tried to get the good people of Carmona to shake off
the yoke of religion. It caused a
big fuss. The former sisters sold
all the religious items to the black market and used the money to live off
of. The religious items they could
not hock they painted over with murals of feminism and human freedom. The Bishop of Madrid had to get a court
order to evict the wayward sisters.
It was an embarrassment to the Church when the media photographed the
police carrying out all these struggling ladies. The former Mother Superior was 71 years
old and it was her photograph that made the cover of El Mundo and a few Spanish
sites on the Internet. Several
policemen were injured and …”
“Thanks
Jack, that is enough. Where is
Princess Marianne?”
“Last
media report had her in London yesterday.”
“Let’s
first go to London then. I want to
try and see her. Try and get a
flight this Friday.”
And
so I booked a flight to London and a room at Frank’s favorite hotel and told
Frank, “I will hold off on the Madrid plane ticket until you know for sure when
you want to go.”
“Perfect”
and then after a short pause, “Try to contact Lutts’s people and see if you can
arrange an interview with the Princess.”
“Already
done. I will tell you when I get a
response.”
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