La Guadalupana: Sonajas de jade!

Power point presentation by Doctor Mariano Allen C.
Knocks around a hundred of us all dead Thursday night.
December 1, 2005 at the St. Patrick's Cathedral Elementary School Cafeteria.

Ladies bring along some good food, too.
Good time had by all!

Invisible literary guests beam down and are also astounded!


In P.D. James' A Certain Justice, a worthy addition to any UTEP English Department Detective Fiction Class as an example of James' own peculiar How Catchum genre, we read on page 366 of the Ballantyne Books paperback edition (1997) of how Theology Graduate turned English Police Detective Adam Dalgliesh is looking at a madonna picture in an Anglican chapel.

"To his right he saw that two fresh candles had been lit before the statue of the Virgin and wondered what hope or desperation was held in their steady burning. The statue, despite the pristine blue of the robe, the golden curls of the child with the chubby hand outstretched to bless, was less sentimental than most of its kind. The face, gravely carved, expressed in its perfection a Western ideal of untouchable femininity. He thought: Whatever she had looked like, that unknowable Middle Eastern girl, [emphasis added] it was never like this." (366)

Next week: Dan Brown's convict clowns drop in on the lecture.

And the little street urchins in Fynn's Mr. God This is Ana.

All these people accompany P.D. James' police hero to quietly listen in on Dr. Mariano's power point presentation.

And boy! Is his real life celestial art work going to astound them all!

Your main man Willie