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" <Bless me, Inspector, for I have
sinned. I have procured pleasures of
the flesh for evil men of lucre and
have even offered my own joys if his
lucre was big enough. I wanted to tell
the Abbot of my sins but was always
dissuaded by Doctor Dee and his cunning
arguments. If only I had been satisfied
"with being Mother Superior, and hadn't
let him talk me into becoming Madame
Superior!
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" <I confessed to Cardinal Musial
today but he was too concerned with the
Papal Bull to do anything. I am sorry
for these and all the sins of my past
life.>
" While you vainly try to remember
how to say an <act of contrition> for
"the good Mother, she gently shuffles
off her mortal coil.
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Calhoon hated to kill off a character as inherently interesting as
Mother Puleeze but the symmetry of the plot made it necessary. In the
original version her name was spelled <Puleze> because Calhoon wanted
the four victim's names to be two six-letter words. But for this
version he decided to make the pun even more broad by making its
pronunciation a little clearer -- at the expense of losing the six-six
symmetry.
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