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The Litany for a Happy Death is a prayer that is suggested nuns make students memorize, found on page 1017 of the Breviarum Defunctorum - according to the Handbook for Grade School Nuns (Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies, 108).

Inspiration[]

Fictional, of course, though Bowen feels if there was such a thing, "the contents must be quite different from the hilariously scary version John offers.  The humor here is closely related to some of the bits in the Litany of Saint Fidgeta.[1]"

References[]

  1. Correspondence with Charles Bowen.
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