on 1/7/02 4:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ashara wrote: > > << I can only imagine what a terrible person this Jenny Fields is!! ;-) >> > > Quite the opposite, Ashara. > > Although I haven't read the book or seen the movie in 15 years or more, if I > remember correctly, Jennie was Garp's mother. She was a nurse who decided in > the 1940s that she wanted to be a mother, but not a wife, so she managed > Garp's conception in a rather unique way -- she had sex with a dying WW II > soldier in her care. Once Garp became old enough to go to school, she > supported them by working as a nurse in an Exeter-like prep school, which > gave Garp access to a better education than he would have had otherwise.
This is where your brain farted oh great Murph. It wasn't that she started a movement, BUT she wrote a booook (in the proper English pronunciation), and the Ellen Jamison's adopted her as their hero and she bought the house in New England to house all the hangers on (so to speak). The Ellen Jamison's were the ladies that cut off their tongues to protest what had happened to the young lady of the same name who had been raped and then had her tongue cut out so she couldn't tell what had happened to her. BTW, Ashara dearest, Jenny was played by Glenn Close in the movie (AND i don't know what the feck THAT means, but I thought i should bring it up) Paz P.S. To hear Jenny tell the story of how Garp was concieved was like butta. > Later on, when Garp was grown, I believe, she wrote a book which started a > movement. (This is where the brain cells are most damaged because I can't > remember the nature of the movement.) Anyway -- this, Ashara, is where the > likeness to you gets so strong -- she established a home to which all kinds > of people came to 'heal' -- sort of like an endless Jonifest! > > Please wear the Jennie Fields nurse uniform at Jonifest 2002, Ashara! > > XO, > > --Bob
