[M&D] spoilers, more on chapter 1

davemarc davemarc at panix.com
Tue Apr 29 23:45:07 CDT 1997


> From: Chris Sweet <csweet at gte.net>
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[snipsnipsnip]
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> Tenebrae - from the OED
> from the latin, meaning darkness.
> The name given to the office matins & lauds of the following
> day, usually sung in the afternoon or evening of Wednesday,
> Thursday, or Friday in Holy Week, at which the candles
> lighted at the beginning of the service are extinguished
> one by one after each psalm, in memory of the darkness at
> the time of the crucifixion.

Lots of fire fire fire in that room, eh?  Could Beavis be lurking?

davemarc



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