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

[Mike Jing]

I figured it refers to the last judgement but wasn't sure. Thanks for the
reply, Michael.


On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 11:13 PM Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mike Jing wrote:
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> 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. . . .
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> What is this day she is appealing to? Whose wrath or indifference is it?
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> Catholic trope: “Dies Irae” last judgement, “day of wrath”
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> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_irae
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> Liturgical music around it:
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> https://youtu.be/2OBB5-bP6qs
> Gregorian chant
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> Mozart:
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> https://youtu.be/RKJur8wpfYM
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> Verdi:
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> https://youtu.be/X6cogix3cwQ
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> Berlioz:
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> https://youtu.be/-XY5lLMimVc
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> Bernstein (conducting Berlioz’s)
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> https://youtu.be/Ih7X4bgyYdI
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> Day of indifference is a Pynchon detournement
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> 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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> (-;
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