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

[Erik T. Burns]

"dies irae", one part of it or another, was a very common crossword
puzzle answer back when I was doing the NYT puzzle every day.

usually the clue was "_____ irae" or "dies ____"

I think the puzzle maker was sending messages, by W.A.S.T.E.

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> Another book where a reference to "Dies Irae" pops up is "VALIS" by Philip K. Dick.
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> 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.
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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
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>>  "Dies irae" means "day of wrath in latin. . .
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>>  TR p796
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>>  "—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."
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>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_Irae
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>>  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".
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>>  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
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>>  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).
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>>  Symphonie Fantastique: Dies Irae
>>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od7KTNOzQi8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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>>  This is the first stanza of the poem "Dies Irae":
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>>  "Day of wrath! O day of mourning! See fulfilled the prophets' warning,
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>>  Heaven and earth in ashes burning!"
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>>  And these are Berlioz's own program notes:
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>>  "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.
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>>  ed
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