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Lives of the Saints: St Alison of Williamstown
Alison was born by divine infarction in Douglas Parade, Williamstown, the
site of the great convict uprising. So indeed she blessed this unhallowed
place and put the memory of John Price to rights.
At the age of one she suffered a vision of Godel's Theorem which made blood
run down from her eyes. She put up her hand to her face and lo! the blood
ceased, and the burghers of Williamstown, thinking that they could now erect
parking meters for the penitents who came often to visit her, were much pleased
and erected a simple hut near the Steampacket Hotel where she could pursue
her revelations.
Henceforward she was known as the Avatar of Inconsistency and arrayed herself
informally in all churches, shewing herself brightly within all correspondences.
No other sign of God's purchase on her soul was evident for some years, despite
much prayer against her ragged appearance, for which the priest, who was in
league with the wizard on the hill, sought to expel her from her hut. A delegation
of councillors came to do the deed. St Alison stood outside her hut and said,
I stand before the fractal scissiparity in all my subjective imparticularity,
and no hand but God's can perceive me. She then cut off both her breasts and
flung them at the councillors.
Being greatly alarmed, they ran away. She then set her hand to her bosom,
and her breasts were restored, and the people greatly wondered.
Another fact about St Alison was that she never seen to eat but of milk-soaked
mulberries, and she was never seen to drink but of metaxa. So it was reported
of her, by those who lived closely with her. She spent her time henceforth
in holy meditation of hydrating cement slurries.
There are many miracles told of this time. A certain one-dimensional cellular
automaton once was breathed into her right nostril, upon which she cried,
God! and from her nose expelled a stream of turbulent mucuous. This was
so bright it illuminated all of Nelson Place and Centennial Park, even
down to the waterfront. At another time a non-linear equation which she
was coddling in a clay dish climbed out and threatened her with terminal
autocatalysis. At this she took up a thermodynamic sandpile and cast it,
singing and praying the while. The astonished people saw it shrink to
the size of a very small cat. After that it stayed in the hut with her
and helped her in many of her miracles.
Many miracles and marvels in that wise the Lord wrought for Alison. So many
are they that no one could tell of them all, unless her own soul or an angel
of God should come to declare them. However, this should be enough as a sample
of them.
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