DeDaumier-Smith Question (fwd)

Mike Hurben (hurben@lamar.ColoState.EDU)
Mon, 08 Dec 1997 15:33:19 -0700 (MST)

After he gets the letter explaining that Sister Irma will no longer
be a student with the art school, Jean mentions something about a
mouse leaving the site of a burning ferris wheel, preparing an airtight
plan for the cat.

What on earth is this a reference to?? This is driving me nuts!

Thanks in advance.

By the way, although I read CITR at least 12 years ago, I only got
around to the above mentioned story _last night._  The
descriptions of Sister Irma's Christ scene, caused ROTFL with
tears running down my face for literally 5 minutes.  I later read it 
to my wife, but it took me 3 attempts to get through the passage 
which described the moaning sound made by M/Mme Yoshoto without 
screaming and gyrating in ecstacy.  This is by far the funniest story
I have read in years.  But it is not without its terrors, too.  I have 
been thinking about the wooden dummy-diety all day.  He reminds me of
T. J. Eckleburg, but is somehow more frightening.

Mike