She learned a lot in the theology stacks. She learned that women are the gateway to Hell. She learned that despite claiming that what they had seen and experienced could not possibly be expressed in words, the mystics went right on and expressed it at extraordinary length. She learned that the Vatican had curious problems, and that it was possible to commit a crime called "fishing in Papal waters." She learned vast amounts about things that not only did not interest her but clearly had not interested those who wrote about them, and it became obvious to her that if all theology were written in Latin it would be no great loss.
- - Suzette Haden Elgin
Today's earrings: spiders, estrogen molecules
Bedtime reading: Perpetual Light, Alan Ryan, ed.
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