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09-29-2002, 09:37 PM | #141 |
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In none of the sources that I remember reading was her reference to the Miraculous Medal made in her interview with the Commissioner(though at
SOME point she DID make such a statement). Jacomet's interview was in february, the Immaculate conception comment came in March. |
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The first Sunday of the fortnight, when I was coming out of the Church, an employee from the town hall seized my hood and ordered me to follow him. This must be a construction of later memory. Jacomet's actual notes say it was not an employee, but he himself who pulled Berna aside I did so, and on the way he said that I would make acquaintance with the prison. I listened in silence and we arrived at the office of the Police Superintendent (Jacomet). Jacomet's notes say the interview was conducted in his apartment.... He took me into a room alone, gave me a chair, and I sat down. Jacomet's notes say that the interview was not alone, but in front of witnesses. You will note how Berna's reconstructed memory-fantasy is shot through will self-justificatory details that make her appear the put-upon saint harshly accused by nasty police authorities. The website you got this from does not tell us when the account was given by Bernie, assuming it is even hers. Then he took paper and asked me to tell him what happened at the grotto. I did so. After having written some lines which I dictated to him, he wrote other things that I had not said. Then he said he was going to read them to me to see if he had not made a mistake, so I listened attentively. But as soon as he had read a few lines I saw that there were errors and I quickly replied: 'Sir I did not say that.' Then he became angry and said I did say that, while I repeated that I did not. These disputes went on for some minutes, and when he saw that he was wrong and when I persisted in saying that I had not said that, he went a little further and started again (to read what I had not said, while I maintained that it was not so). This episode is self-justificatory fantasy. It never happened. Jacomet's account apparently says nothing of this. This repetition went on for a long time. Apparently not, for neither Jacoment nor any other witness has discussed this. I stayed there for an hour or an hour and a half. From time to time I could hear the sound of kicking on the door and the shutters and voices of men who shouted: 'If you don't let her out we'll burst open the door'. More fantasy....this is clearly a much later account. When it was time for me to go, the Superintendent accompanied me to the door, and there, I found my father waiting impatiently with a crowd of other people who had followed me from the Church. This is the first time that I was obliged to appear before these gentlemen. More horseshit, for as history clearly shows, this account was taken on the 21st of Feb, but newspaper articles about the period already peg her as a saint being follow by crowds of 1,200 people. Many witnessed her in the grotto in this period PRIOR to Jacomet's interview. In other words, Bernadette's account here is a post hoc fantasy with a strong persecution element built into it. Vorkosigan |
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She was not upset and her story was always the
same. This is also post hoc justificatory fantasy; her story changed from audience to audience, as the various accounts show. Vorkosigan |
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