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CARNIVAL_OF_LOST_SOULS

                                              July 30, 2006




A woman with no use for anything
the world has to offer her,          Everyone finds her a puzzle:
neither the puritanical,
simpleminded church, nor the           She calmly bounces back
pleasures of boozey seduction.         from a near fatal accident.

She clings to life, but it             She takes a job as a church
isn't easy to see why -- the           organist, and everyone --
touch of tree bark, and the            even the sensualist -- is
chirp of a bird song brings            confused by her lack of
her back twice over, but               respect for the holiness and
nothing about the human race           sanctity of the position.
is of any use to her.

  Three main representatives of modern america:

  o   A stupid, slimey fellow who wants to
      get her drunk and fuck her.

  o   A priggish pastor who fires her for one
      "transgression": playing the wrong kind of
      music after hours.  ("Profane!").

  o   A doctor that wants to play at
      psychoanalysis "Could it be a guilt reaction?"


          All lost souls, every one.


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