Gail Godwin’s reserved yet powerful new novel, “Unfinished Desires,” is set in a Roman Catholic boarding school in the mountains of North Carolina. The school, Mount St. Gabriel’s, is led by the indomitable Mother Ravenel, herself once a student there, when she was the ringleader of a secretive clique of girls, the “oblates of the Red Nun.” With the exception of one terrible year of mysterious seclusion, God has been at Ravenel’s side throughout her life’s work of running Mount St. Gabriel’s — selecting students and hiring teachers, raising funds, overseeing a grand expansion of the grounds. She maintains a steady patter of conversation with Him. “It’s a man’s voice,” she tells her retreat master. “And it’s wise. He comes up with things I wouldn’t have thought of.”
Mother Ravenel is described by her charges as “old Ravenous” or “Raving Ravenel,” and with good reason; she has a lifelong habit of confusing her authority with divine right. The voice of the Lord reassures her: “For the most part, your ambition has served us well. It has produced many good results, but it has chipped away some of your soul.” Though it’s a beautiful, well-intentioned institution, the school is anything but serene. “This place is such a hotbed of bitchery,” says a student. “Generations of bitchery and intrigue!”...The novel switches back and forth between Ravenel’s dryly official, sanctified version of events — a history of insufferably superior “furnished souls,” as E. E. Cummings put it — and the richer, darker, uninhibited story of actual life among these manipulative, ambitious, gifted, fascinating adolescent girls. In what one of the teachers calls their “molting age,” the ninth graders resist authority, adore their friends and insist, as teenagers will, on bringing the secrets of their elders to light — no matter what the cost.
Who knew Catholics and Jews had something in common...besides, well, you know.
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Notable among these was the reformer, Martin Luther, who in 1543 wrote in "Von den Juden und Ihren Lugen":
"Does not their Talmud say, and do not their rabbis write, that it is no sin to kill if a Jew kills a heathen, but it is a sin if he kills a brother in Israel? It is no sin if he does not keep his oath to a heathen. Therefore, to steal and rob, as they do with their usury, from a heathen is a divine service. For they hold that they cannot be too hard on us nor sin against us, because they are of the noble blood and circumcised saints; we, however, are cursed goyim. And they are the masters of the world, and we are their servants, yea, their cattle...
"Should someone think that I am saying too much, I am not saying too much, but much too little. For I see in their writings how they curse us goyim and wish us all evil in their schools and their prayers."----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I used to believe the israelis/jews were the people I read about in their controlled newsmedia/academia/ploitica throught AIPAC, I believed their PR stunts, had empathy for the, then I lived among them for 22 years, saw their plans take shape, watched their pseudo-zealous rabbis attend services where they try and curse the goyim, and visit the whoes houses the next day, I saw them destroy the lives and businesses of too many good people to discuss. If I were one of them then I would be as they are, the world class mafia, but I am not. I am someone who took the time to study their sub-culture very closely. In their world I am a goyin, a non-nobility, someone they tolerate as a hireling, servant slave or customer, in a world where they are trying to control. To answer your quection,I believe we are all equal, no gruop should enslave the others. I see their infiltration of the USA, the increase in minimium wage jobs, tripling ebery 10 years, homelessness off the charts. It wasn't like this 50 years ago. They convinced the politicians, through bribery to drop our import taxation dept, then stole our manufacturing infrastructure, set it up in slave countries. It represented 80+ of our middle class jobs, we made 95% of what we consumed, now its all imported. they did this to our country, then moved to israel, where they extract 60,000 per year from the US treasury for every israeli citizen, they start the wars, they don't serve in the us military. the jewish culture is anti-american, and esttructive to peace and prosperity throughout the world, they are attempting to control the world. what I write is truth. they control our newsmedia, academia, politica, financial services. we are christian, they the jew, their basic goal in life is to enslave us, they are doing this by graduating 10 times more lawyers and doctors per capita than we do. corruption is how they operate
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