Dead ones and the living

[sovay]

I slept twenty minutes last night and all of them were nightmares. I write this e-mail from a dentist's office in Davis Square, where after an hour derspatchel is finally being seen for the filling that disintegrated on Monday night (it is that kind of week). I appear to have just watched the Pope abdicate on CNN. I've had better-starting mornings.

(Probably so has the Pope, but I bet he isn't tired enough to hallucinate movement in the brickwork across the street.)

[edit] I still really keep hoping for an antipope. I know it's not going to happen. I'm just saying.

Comments

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

So, I assume the college of cardinals will keep things ticking over until they elect a new pope, but is one of them the official senior official in the meantime? And do the other cardinals go "Whee! Substitute Pope!" and throw paper airplanes at him when his back is turned?

A girl can dream, can't she?

[sovay]

And do the other cardinals go "Whee! Substitute Pope!" and throw paper airplanes at him when his back is turned?

I like your dreams.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

And do the other cardinals go "Whee! Substitute Pope!" and throw paper airplanes at him when his back is turned?

I only wish I thought any of them had a sufficient sense of humour to do this. I've known priests who might have done, and even an archbishop, but alas none of them have been given a red biretta.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

I like to think some saints might have. Particularly Francis; Lawrence was supposed to have had a sense of humour, as well. I don't know if either of them could make paper airplanes, though. When did paper-airplane/dart technology develop?

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Paper darts were around in the 18th century. There is a story of schoolboys lodging them in their schoolmaster's wig. "The culprit was inftantly fummoned, and made no other defence, than that they flipt out of his hand, and he did not go to do it."

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

but alas none of them have been given a red biretta.

This is why we wish Leonard Boyle had been willing to accept one, and NOT gotten himself into a fundraising scandal... Other people throw paper darts in the classroom. Boyle used to throw manuscripts. (Though to be fair, I think it was just charters; and they're not rare, and relatively indestructible.)

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

This is why we wish Leonard Boyle had been willing to accept one, and NOT gotten himself into a fundraising scandal...

Agreed. This is the first I'd heard of him, and I'm wondering how I can find out more. Thanks!