Friday, May 23, 2003

The Golden Legend (italicized - I'm not sure why) tells how Barbara was shut up in a tower by her daddy so that no man should see her. Nonetheless princes sought her hand in marriage. I guess she was cute. Barbara became a Christian when her daddy was out of town. She decided to live as a hermit in a bath-house her daddy owned and she had some carpenters in to put in a third window because she thought three windows would remind her of the Holy Trinity. When she was taking baths all day I guess. Barbara's daddy was real pissed about her becoming a Christian and apparently nearly killed her himself and then he sent her to a judge who ruled that she be condemned to death. Because she was a Christian? Because she made her daddy mad? Judges are strange to me. I wouldn't want to be one and I don't understand why they want to be one. As far as I can tell judges believe they are preserving sanity and progress and civilization but I think they're kidding themselves and anyway I'd let all that slide if it would make for peace and quiet. Barbara was waiting to get hung or burnt or whatever and her daddy got struck by lightning. Struck by Lightning. So Barbara started out the Saint of not getting struck by lightning and then that sort of evolved to other kinds of sudden death. Mines falling down on your head. Cannon balls falling down on your head. So for instance Barbara was the patron saint of gunners. Barbara would have been Koo's patron saint cept I'm pretty sure Koo's protestant or maybe jewish pretending to be protestant. Passing as they say. Cept Koo lay down his gun and picked up a ukulele. There are, as far as I can tell, no St. Virginias. But I'm thinking of having me a St. Virginia in the Empire of Dr. Bienke, make her the patron saint of ukuleles and cowgirl yodelling. Just this morning I realized that Mrs. Montoya's House of Games (House of Cards?) needs a pool table or a billiards table or a snooker table or something. One of the girls is such a sharp player that boys travel from far and wide down to Dos Passos and across the border to Lunaazul just to get beat. When we make the movie I got a hottie in mind for the role. The Hypernovel the Empire of Dr. Bienke aka Ragtime Texas is what they call a roman a clef. The clef is a clothespin and and the springy metal circle is on the line designating the note x. 12:27:13 PM    comment []