Subject: sister, sister
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 03:57:33 EST
'... I sure don't feel like a nun when I go around drinking
and blaspheming ...'
If it's any consolation, I've treated at least one nun for
her drinking & two others for the upheavals resulting
from their emotional entanglements with men that didn't
belong to them. (No blasphemers, mind you.)
I've long lost count of my 'ex-nuns.'
I don't know what American nuns are like & I wonder did
Salinger - really. Despite the jolly, sporty image promoted
by Hollywood, most nuns of my acqaintance 'entered' from
the pressure of either ambitious/devout families or from
the unresolved neurotic conflicts of adolescence - & retain
much of the regret, even bitterness, inherent in these situations.
Being reared under the aegis of the kindly Quakers, I bear
no childhood scars at the hands of the Irish sisters. I must
say, though, that a very great number of my patients do.
'Thundering bitches' is the usual term. And outweighs
the grateful tributes in a ratio of about twenty to one.
As they used to say in my home town - before the vocations
all dried up: 'The Sisters of Mercy have not charity.
And the Sisters of Charity have no mercy....'
The once popular image appears to be just as sentimentally
unrealistic as the one Leonard Cohen had of HIS 'Sisters.'
(Good tune, though.)
Scottie B.
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