Hell by Holly

[fflo]

Here's the Hell that Holly hath made. (I threw Mother Teresa into mine for her, so she left her out of this one, even though Mamma T. is a pet peeve evil to H.)

Charlton Heston
Circle I Limbo

Steve Mullaney, Norman Mailer
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

Libertarians, Objectivists
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

George Bush
Circle IV Rolling Weights

Ayn Rand
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled

River Styx

Maggie Thatcher, Liz Cognard (old nemesis)
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

Rumsfeld
Circle VII Burning Sands

Frederick Winslow Taylor
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement

Wolfowitz
Circle IX Frozen in Ice

Design your own hell

Comments

[vachementmoi.livejournal.com]

maybe i'm dull, but why is mother teresa evil? i really need an explanation on this one.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Quoting girlfriend from other room, "Tell her there's a whole documentary about it. I forget the name of the documentarian, but she made dirty deals for years---with people like with Qaddafyi---giving them her morale blessing in exchange for cash. She refused to treat sick people who she felt were sinners; she was abusive to her staff members. All in the name of good Christian charity."

"The other thing is ---so, she's situated in the middle of a country whose health crises are directly related to their uncontrolled population growth, and she refused to give any information or assist women in any way in controlling their reproductivity. And that's bad. Of course she wouldn't allow abortions or give any information about them, either. So, you know, she's supposedly treating all these poor women and children, and what many of the women wanted was a way to control the number of children they were having, which was affecting their health and their children's health."

"I guess to me what makes her evil in a way that's different from other benevolent colonizers is that she's held up to be a paragon of virtue, and her mission in India was much, much more complicated than that---and in some ways, I think, injurious."

[vachementmoi.livejournal.com]

thank you. that's all i wanted to know. speaking of such things, have you ever read tom robbins' book 'firece invalids home from hot climates? there's a subplot involving a group of nuns fighting for birth control rights among catholics.

Fierce Invalids

[groovesinorbit]

If fflo hasn't, she should. Awesome book!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

My experience with Tom Robbins is pretty much limited to Another Roadside Attraction, the cover of Still Life With Woodpecker, and the lesbian cowgirl one. At least I think I haven't read Jitterbug Perfume.

I shall have to check out those invalids!