TR reference to "Dies Irae" which pops up in other books

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

"'Alles fließt' lehrt Heraklit/
Petri Felsen, der fließt mit."

(Carl Schmitt on the Second Vatican Council)


On 05.07.2011 00:01, Mark Kohut wrote:

> And this...eliminated from overt liturgies and missals by Second Vatican Council
> for these reasons:
>
> Nevertheless the same body felt that the funeral rite was in need of reform and
> eliminated the sequence as such from the Masses for the Dead. A leading figure
> in the post-conciliar liturgical reforms, Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, explains
> the mind of the Cardinals and Bishops who were members of the Consilium:
> They got rid of texts that smacked of a negative spirituality inherited from the
> Middle Ages. Thus they removed such familiar and even beloved texts as the
> Libera me, Domine, the Dies Iræ, and others that overemphasized judgment, fear,
> and despair. These they replaced with texts urging Christian hope and arguably
> giving more effective expression to faith in the resurrection.[3]
>

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>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Edward A Moore<edmoorester at gmail.com>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Mon, July 4, 2011 5:55:47 PM
> Subject: TR reference to "Dies Irae" which pops up in other books
>
> "Dies irae" means "day of wrath in latin. . .
>
> TR p796
>
> "—Dies irae, dies illa, solvet saeclum in favilla . . .
> Tell me, did they sing that out here?
> —Where?
> —The Mass, you said you had a Mass sung for the dead.
> They sing that sometimes, in Masses for the dead, swinging the
> censer to kill the smell of the living."
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_Irae
>
> In Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film The Shining, the main theme is based on
> Hector Berlioz' interpretation of the Dies Irae as he used it in his
> "Symphonie fantastique".
>
> Thomas Pynchon's 1963 novel V. includes direct references to Dies Irae
> in chapter 9:
> "Somewhere in the house (though he may have dreamed that too) a chorus
> had begun
> singing a Dies Irae in plainsong
>
> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe used the first, the sixth and the seventh
> stanza of the
> hymn in the scene "Cathedral" in the first part of his drama Faust (1808).
>
> Symphonie Fantastique: Dies Irae
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od7KTNOzQi8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
>
> This is the first stanza of the poem "Dies Irae":
>
> "Day of wrath! O day of mourning! See fulfilled the prophets' warning,
>
> Heaven and earth in ashes burning!"
>
> And these are Berlioz's own program notes:
>
> "He sees himself at a witches sabbath, in the midst of a
> hideous gathering of shades, sorcerers and monsters of
> every kind who have come together for his funeral.
> Strange sounds, groans, outbursts of laughter; distant shouts
> which seem to be answered by more shouts.
>
> ed
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