| OCR Text |
Show 1*9 # Helen came back from the hospital a new being. She went out and bought herself a brand new 18 inch xxg Infant of Prague and all the bright new clothes he needed for every month, every special week, every holy day of the year. He had white slips and pink slips and lavender slips, red robes and green robes and purple robes and white robes, multi-clored x^a capes, fancy booties for his little feet that were crushing that snake Satan. He had silver crowns and gold crowns, little silk mittens for his hands that had to hold the tiny globes of the world with crosses on them. He xx even had a xxi black-purple satin blanket to hide under during Lent. He had candles galore. Helen put the Infant high on top the big tall axxxxai di >\ count-arabesque &g£SSSS&Ss£6& that used to scare the hell out of me when I was little because I thought the front looked like a big ugly face and always had dreams of it coming alive and chasing me around XX the room. The Infant stood up there above everything. Then £ Helen renewed her campaign for the conversion of Red. Priests started coming over every other day for dinner. Red talked to them about golf. But afterwards Helen had the priests lead the family in the Rosary. We knelt there praying our asses off, xaa saving Red and converting Jews and saving the world from Communism all at the same time. Finally Helen went to work at the sewing machine and one day after school when I came home I found Andrew toddling around a spitting image of the Infant of Prague and Joseph all dressed up like the Blessed Virgin Mary. Helen got the statue and had Andrew and Joseph march in front of her and they stopped and said prayers in front of every holy picture in the house, a march g that got to be lengthier and lengthier since Helen was also into a period of sacred object proliferation. Of course she always cleaned up before Red came home, but Red was no dummy. He knew xaxxix something fishy was up. He called a house meeting and cut off iM Helen's funding. He xxxxxxxxxxxx quarantined all the holy objects that were bought after the Infant of Prague to the dining room and after that we always ate in the kitchen because there wasn't room for xxxix anything but holiness in the dining room once all the blessed junk got in there. Red |
