:: Part of that sounds kind of maybe a little like the end of _A
:: Canticle for Leibowitz_. Not too many "Catholics in Space!" stories
:: that I can think of.
: wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(William December Starr)
: Hmm... Dan Simmons' "Hyperion" universe sure had 'em. Yecch.
: There were the Orange Catholics in Dune, of course, if they count.
: And of course the protagonist of Clarke's "The Star" was a Jesuit
: priest in space.
"By His words, 'I am living, who was dead; and behold, I live forever
and ever; and I have the keys of death and of Hell;' I say unto you,
angel of perdition: depart, depart, DEPART!"
--- Blish, "A Case of Conscience"
And of course Stasheff's "Gramarye" series has St. Vidicon of the Tube
and other divers catholocisms in the background. Ooooh, oooh, and of
*COURSE* Futurama has the Space Pope.
Ah well. None of this helps with the YASID, I suppose. I guilty of
topic drift. But the power of Christ compelled me. So it's not my fault.
So there.
It is told that Pannalal the Sage, having sharpened his mind with
meditation and divers asceticisms, had divined the operation of the
lock and entered Hellwell, spending a day and a night beneath the
mountain. He was thereafter known as Pannalal the Mad.
--- Lord of Light
(Hrm, was Nirriti the Black Catholic? Or Protestant?)
Wayne Throop throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://sheol.org/throopw
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