TR Pt2 Ch1 Stabat Mater, Pieta Mater, Dolorosa

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Stabat Mater, Pieta Mater, Dolorosa

TR p338
—Yes, or your mother?
—Yes. My mother, he admitted in a whisper, looking back at the picture on
the soiled gesso, his face drawn up in lines of confusion as though he had  
just remembered.
—Yes, is it? Valentine muttered. —The Visitation, then? He laughed.
—A Stabat Mater? No.

ed's note: this stabat mater will recur a few more times. . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabat_Mater_(art)

Stabat Mater is one of the three common artistic representations of a  
sorrowful Virgin Mary,
the other two being Mater Dolorosa (Mother of Sorrows) and Pietà.

COL 49 102-104
Oedipa as Pieta

"She was overcome all at once by a need to touch him, as if she could not  
believe in him,
or would not remember him, without it. Exhausted, hardly knowing what she  
was doing,
she came the last three steps and sat, took the man in her arms, actually  
held him,
gazing out of her smudged eyes down the stairs, back into the morning.
She felt wetness against her breast and saw that he was crying again."


ed
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