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Coincidance - Principia Discordia

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COINCIDANCE 135<br />

began to think that the antipasto tray had a smell of bitter almonds about it.<br />

I packed my bags and crept quietly down the stairs of the Hotel Cavalcanti.<br />

As I passed through the lobby, I heard the delegates in the convention hall<br />

smashing chairs and other furniture. Hoarse, impassioned shouts of<br />

"Fascist," "Communist," "Mariolatry," "Spermolatry,""Manicheanism," "Arianism"<br />

and "Don't give me that Jesuit equivocation, you sonofabitch" were<br />

drowned in inarticulate screams of rage and pain. I gathered that the debate<br />

had grown acrimonious, as theological discussions so often do.<br />

Sounds of shattering glass and a pongoid cry of "Take that, Socianist*—<br />

Unitarian dog!" followed me into the dusty, sunbaked Italian street.<br />

I decided to get the hell out of Italy.<br />

* Not a typo. Socianist: a rational theology that denied Papal infallibility, the Trinity and<br />

the efficacy of sacraments. Condemned as heresy, of course.

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