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%u00a9Jack Fritscher, Ph.D., All Rights ReservedHOW TO LEGALLY QUOTE FROM THIS BOOK142 Jack Fritscherexperience true ens-qua-ens, true being-as-being, true beauty, true virtue, true manliness, true Self...%u201dIn the May moonlight, Mike turned to Lock and me. %u201cI knocked over his palmetto fans, dodged him to grab my cassock, and beat it out the door. That was two hours ago.%u201dThe smell of sin was fresh. My breath came short. I wanted to plunge my body like a hot poker into the cold pond.%u201cWhat a scandal!%u201d Lock said. %u201cWhy did you tell me, Mike?%u201d I said.%u201cFinally,%u201d Lock said, %u201cwe see the tip of the iceberg.%u201d%u201cI hate stuff like this,%u201d I said. I walked away.%u201cGod, Ryan,%u201d Lock said. %u201cYou%u2019re such a damn baby.%u201d%u201cSure,%u201d I said, %u201cand you%u2019re Lochinvar Roehm, Vatican Detective.%u201d%u201cDryden admitted,%u201d Mike said to Lock, %u201cthere are others. A lot of boys try...%u201d%u201cDon%u2019t say it!%u201d%u201c...expressing themselves and if they feel guilty, he hears their Confession.%u201d%u201cUuh,%u201d I said.%u201cAbsolutio complicis,%u201d Lock said. %u201cIf a priest in Confession absolves his accomplice%u2019s sin, he violates Canon law.%u201d%u201cAnd commits a mortal sin,%u201d I said, %u201cso they both require forgiveness from yet another priest. It%u2019s endless! I...don%u2019t...understand...this!%u201d%u201cI can%u2019t tell Father Gunn or Rector Karg,%u201d Mike said. %u201cI%u2019m trapped. I can%u2019t lie. I actually dropped my pants.%u201d%u201cThey have to be told,%u201d I said.%u201cBut Mike can%u2019t do it,%u201d Lock said. %u201cDon%u2019t you see? They%u2019d suspect him, because he went so often to Dryden for private conferences....%u201d%u201cYou dropped your pants?%u201d I said to Mike.%u201cI can%u2019t lie.%u201d%u201c...It would be Dryden%u2019s word against his...%u201d %u201cYou dropped your pants?%u201d I said. %u201cYou can%u2019t tell the truth either.%u201d%u201c...It can%u2019t be Dryden%u2019s word against his.%u201d Lock turned to me.%u201cWhy not?%u201d I said.%u201cBecause,%u201d Lock said, %u201cthis is Byzantine, Roman, and maybe very Vatican II.%u201d%u201cWe need someone who was never alone with Dryden.%u201dBoth Lock and Mike turned to me.