M& D Deep Duck Separation of Church & State
Elisabeth Romberg
eromberg at mac.com
Sun Jan 11 03:16:18 CST 2015
Whats in a name?
Made me think of the generation in AtD, of young boys who read Chums of Chance-like books, then as young men had to fight it out in the trenches.
Maybe Tenebrae will grow up too, having that magical world snuffed out, but by Reason?
Elisabeth
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> Den 11. jan. 2015 kl. 09.56 skrev Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>:
>
> Yes, there is a Roman Catholic ceremony, not much practiced now, called The Tenebraeum. And yes, it involves snuffing all the candles and clapping these special boxes together to make an unholy racket in the dark.
>
> Very powerful. I've been to one.
>
> Jerky
>
>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Look up Tenebrae on the p wiki and see that in one understanding her
>> 'darkness' involves
>> stripping all the icons and trappings and lights around an altar and
>> ending with naked darkness.
>>
>> And we have Cherrycoke's, the imposter parson and born-again secularist....
>>
>> Ways to atmospherically, metaphorically suggest that, in the religious
>> country that IS now--1786 and forever so far--, that is English and
>> fragmented America, coming up is a Constitution that enshrines the
>> (secular) rule of law divorced from ANY specific religious connection?
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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