Dies Irae

[edmoorester at gmail.com]

Another book where a reference to "Dies Irae" pops up is "VALIS" by Philip  
K. Dick.

Kai wrote:
"At the beginning of chapter three it is reported how Horselover
Fat took a large dosage of Acid in 1964, got catapulted out of time,
started to speak Latin and thought the Dies irae to have come.
For eight hours Fat tried to pacify God's rage by wailing and praying in  
Latin.
No other possibility, Fat later said."


I have tried to read Valis multiple times but just get stuck.

Dick has another book "Deus Irae" "God's Wrath" which I might never read
although I enjoy a lot of his work


Mark noted:
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.


I guess I can see the image problem the song might give the church.

In that same vein if I were the canon editor I would have stricken
Revelations from the New Testament. . . nasty apocalyptic imagery
that a lot of goofballs have misappropriated imho. . .heck maybe even
John Gospel which has some apocalyptic stuff too more so than other gospels

Revelations has supplied an infinite amount of grist for hollywood
and I am sure there are many screenplays waiting to get greenlighted

I wonder if Daniel Goleman's "Social Intelligence" and Malcolm
Gladwell's stuff is in some ways a successor to Dale Carnegie's stuff?

It is touching to read the amazon.com ratings on "How to Win Friends etc"
and see how many people it has helped

ed
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