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how do the letters from rome relate to father gonzaga's unhappines

 

rama a #231195
Feb 18, 2012 11:21 AM

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how do the letters from rome relate to father gonzaga's unhappines
 

Aslan
Feb 18, 2012 11:25 AM

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Father Gonzaga, reliant on authority and established ‘knowledge,’ sends a letter to Rome to get an official verdict from the Pope; but Rome doesn’t get back to him. Father feels slighted by his own church just as the "angel" is slighted by humanity.
 

jill d #170087
Feb 18, 2012 11:25 AM

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"But the mail from Rome showed no sense of urgency. They spent their time finding out in the prisoner had a navel, if his dialect had any connection with Aramaic, how many times he could fit on the head of a pin, or whether he wasn’t just a Norwegian with wings. Those meager letters might have come and gone until the end of time if a providential event had not put and end to the priest’s tribulations."

He was getting nowhere............ and the curious, and even the people who wanted to exploit the angel.
 

rama a #231195
Feb 18, 2012 11:33 AM

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thx guys for the helping <3
 

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