From Newsgroup: soc.culture.irish
Mitchell Holman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
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Nuns can be as cruel to children
as priests, if not more so.
In grade school at St. Mary's, I saw tiny nuns twisting the ear lobes of
kids. :-D
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https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/giovanni-boccaccio/the-decameron/john-payne/text/day-3-1>
The First Story
Masetto of Lamporecchio feigneth himself dumb and becometh
gardener to a convent of women, who all flock to lie with him.
rCLFairest ladies, there be many men and women foolish enough to
believe that, whenas the white fillet is bound about a girlrCOs
head and the black cowl clapped upon her back, she is no
longer a woman and is no longer sensible of feminine
appetites, as if the making her a nun had changed her to
stone; and if perchance they hear aught contrary to this their
belief, they are as much incensed as if a very great and
heinous misdeed had been committed against nature, considering
not neither having regard to themselves, whom full license to
do that which they will availeth not to sat, nor yet to the
much potency of idlesse and thought-taking.
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