her favorite quote

"there is an insect called the hunting wasp. the female hunts for spiders and other insects and preys on them in an unusual way. She stings them in the large nerve ganglion on the underside of the thorax so that they are not killed but only paralized. She than lays an egg on the paralyzed victim (or within its body) and seals the pray up in a nest. when the egg hatches, the wasp larva comences to eat the pray, slowly, gradually, in a highly systemized way. The nonvital paralized creature remains alive for a good many days. Eventually, of course, its guests eats away so much of it that it dies. During the whole long process of consumption, the pray can not move, cry out or resist in any way.

Now, suppose we view the church as the hunting wasp, its stinger being represented by the nuns and priests who teach in its schools. and let us view the pupils as the paralized prey. The egg that is injected into them is dogma, in time must hatch into a larva -personal philosophy or religious attitude. This larva, as that of the wasp, eats away from within, slowly and in a specialized manner, until the victim is destroyed. That is my impression of parochial education." pp.95

TOM ROBBINS. ANOTHER ROADSIDE ATTRACTION.