GR translation: her appeals to a day not of wrath but of final indifference
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Sat Aug 27 03:13:25 UTC 2022
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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