Recognitions ch 2 on Sacre Coeur

[edmoorester at gmail.com]

the photo on the link below shows the building discussed on p66 93penguin  
edition

http://www.thetravelingscholar.com/2010/02/hotels-check/sacre-coeur-paris/

"Above the thing itelf towered exotic and uninvited, affording the  
consolation of the grotesque: that dead white Byzantine-Romanesque surprise  
which was heaped in bulbiferous pyramids atop the Hill of the Martyrs in  
the late nineteenth century, soon after the city had finished installing a  
comprehensive new sewage system. It was a monument (the church) not, as  
many had it, to the French victory over Prussia, but to the Jesuit victory  
over France"

and then later in that same paragraph finally the term "recognition" (know  
it again for the first time)

p66 ". . .Pope Pius IX was assailed with a petition asking highest  
recognition for the Sacred Heart"

but now the theme of counterfeits/forgery pops up p 67
". . .insinuated that the Society had plagiarized the Sacred Heart from  
England's leading philosphe, William Goodwin, who thought of it first."

So there is not so much discussion of the bible in particular but more of  
the Catholic church which the narrator finds riddled with nauseating tales  
(fistula lachrymalis . . .a hole into a tear duct) of the "miracles" which  
enable the Sacre Coeur to get acknowledged as a "center" of religious  
innovation when it just seems to be the same stuff reinventing itself.

Is that the impression you guys get?

Also did anyone notice the description of Paris as a woman? (possibly a  
deceptive hooker? putas means whore in Spanish)

ed
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