[Dr. Eckleburg]

at the Catholic school I was forced to attend for a couple of years, I always won the spelling prizes. (cant tell it now, lol) First place was always a plastic statue of Mary with a rosary in her twist-off feet, , second, some saint, like Christopher, and third Jesus with the bleeding heart. I always got the Mary one. What subtle teaching to little kids.

lolol. Wow. What a telling experience.

And that third place statue didn't make you want to rush right out and become "another Christ," eh?

Maybe that's why so many priests become "another Mary."

First prize.

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I had one of those plastic icon image statues with the screw off bottom containing rosaries, also! Forgot about it.

Not too strange, that a Mary icon would be a first prize, then a saint and Jesus as last prize. All subtle propaganda in play.

Did they have the words ‘deception’ and ‘propaganda’ and ‘control’ in your spelling bee and use them in a sentence? ;) I’d have some fun with that if I knew back then what I know now. Perhaps, excommunication would be ‘the word for the day’.