GR translation: her appeals to a day not of wrath but of final indifference

[Michael Bailey]

Mike Jing wrote:

V150.32-36, P153.14-18   And so each time has taken a little more of the
Zero into herself. It comes down to courage, at worst an amount of
self-deluding that’s vanishingly small: he has to admire it, even if he
can’t accept her glassy wastes, her appeals to a day not of wrath but of
final indifference. . . .

What is this day she is appealing to? Whose wrath or indifference is it?



Catholic trope: “Dies Irae” last judgement, “day of wrath”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_irae

Liturgical music around it:

https://youtu.be/2OBB5-bP6qs
Gregorian chant


Mozart:

https://youtu.be/RKJur8wpfYM


Verdi:

https://youtu.be/X6cogix3cwQ

Berlioz:

https://youtu.be/-XY5lLMimVc

Bernstein (conducting Berlioz’s)

https://youtu.be/Ih7X4bgyYdI




Day of indifference is a Pynchon detournement


What springs to mind for me is this underground comic, “The Adventures
of Jesus” where Jesus is a hippie and at one point he goes, “oh yeah,
the Last Judgement - gotta get around to that sometime!”

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