Re: GR translation: Yes well Pirate’s Chapel himself.

[David Morris]

Pirate's Chapel would be his own place of personal worship. Historically,
European palaces had their personal, familial chapels. In this context,
Pirate's Chapel would be his own interior place of personal perdition and
guilt.  Katje and Pirate share a personal chapel, a shrine in their
hearts, that does not absolve them from their crimes.  In that regard GR
makes them this novel's greatest heroes, apart from Slothrup.

David Morris

On Sunday, January 4, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:

> V546.13-41  “My little brother” (Pirate understands the connection she has
> made) “left home at 18. I liked to watch him sleeping at night. His long
> eyelashes . . . so innocent . . . I watched for hours . . . . He got as far
> as Antwerp. Before long he was loitering around parish churches with the
> rest of them. Do you know what I mean? Young, Catholic males. Camp
> followers. They got to depend on alcohol, many of them, at an early age.
> They would choose a particular priest, and become his faithful
> dog—literally wait all night at his doorstep in order to talk to him fresh
> from his bed, his linen, the intimate smells that had not yet escaped the
> folds of his garment . . . insane jealousies, daily jostling for position,
> for the favors of this Father or that. Louis began to attend Rexist
> meetings. He went out to a soccer field and heard Degrelle tell the crowd
> that they must let themselves be swept away by the flood, they must act,
> act, and let the rest take care of itself. Soon my brother was out in the
> street with his broom, along with the other guilty sarcastic young men with
> their brooms in their hands . . . and then he had joined Rex, the ‘realm of
> total souls,’ and the last I heard he was in Antwerp living with an older
> man named Philippe. I lost track of him. We were very close at one time.
> People took us for twins. When the heavy rocket attacks began against
> Antwerp I knew it could not be an accident . . . .”
>        Yes well Pirate’s Chapel himself. “But I’ve wondered about the
> solidarity of your Church . . . you kneel, and she takes care of you . . .
> when you are acting politically, to have all that common momentum,
> taking you upward—”
>        “You never had that either, did you.” She’s been looking really at
> him—”none of the marvelous excuses. We did everything ourselves.”
>        No, there’s no leaving shame after all—not down here—it has to be
> swallowed sharp-edged and ugly, and lived with in pain, every day.
>
> What's does the sentence "Yes well Pirate’s Chapel himself" mean?
>
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