F. Scott Fitzgerald: She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely m...

The structure of the joke is the juxtaposition of the trivial and the mundane. We have to reconcile the paradox of it all. The joke mirrors the paradox.

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She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in the process of leaving or regaining faith in Mother church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

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