Against the Day/Songs

[Chris Broderick]

Paul sez:

It's important that the Day of Judgement be seen to be
just about as  
fully applicable to the secular world and to the world
of belief  
other than fundamentalist Christian.  In all realms it
is a judgement  
from which there  is no appeal (GR page 1).

So I say:

Important to whom?  Death (as embodied by the
screaming across the sky in GR) is the judgement to
which there is no appeal.  And yes, that screaming
could be the voice of a God dispensing judgement.  But
it could also just be a missile.

The Day of Judgement is something else entirely.  As
Anthony Burgess sez, "Human beings die, and we all
die... Only minor literature aims at apocalypse."  Or
something like that.  If you are an ethical atheist or
a Buddhist, the Day of Judgement is always already in
existence.  So if you mean that, then I agree with
you.  But what I am against (and what I believe the
title Against the Day may imply) is the idea that
judgement of human behavior can be deferred to the
point after we destroy ourselves as a species.  I just
want to make that distinction.

-Chris

PS - I am not Thomas Pynchon.  My real name is Wanda
Tinasky, or William Gaddis, or Richard Farina, or J.
Edgar Hoover.

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