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+title: 4. The Sixteenth Chapel
+genre: verse
+
+epigraph:
+    content: "Canadian High School!"
+    link: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_pwLyeoqk'
+
+dedication: Max
+
+project:
+    title: Stark Raving
+    css: stark
+    order: 17
+    next:
+    - title: Last bastion
+      link: last-bastion
+    - title: |
+        Something about all music being performances of *4'33"*
+        in places where other bands happen to be playing
+      link: music-433
+    prev:
+    - title: Worse looking over
+      link: worse-looking-over
+    - title: Riptide of memory
+      link: riptide_memory
+...
+
+If Justin Bieber isn't going for the sixteenth \
+chapel, I'm not either. I admit he is my role \
+model. He's so current, so fresh and so new, \
+and Michelangelo is so old, his art so dated. \
+Where is the love in those old paintings? All \
+I see is creation, judgment, and death---
+
+and I don't get the preoccupation with death. \
+I'm about life! Ever since my sixteenth \
+birthday, when me and my two sisters all \
+nearly died when the car I was driving rolled \
+into a creek. Even though I've forgotten the date, \
+I think it keeps me thinking on the new,
+
+something Biebs would be proud of if he knew. \
+I look at him, and see the opposite of death \
+in his eyes, his youthful smile: though someday \
+he may be a father, and later host a Sweet Sixteen \
+for his daughter (who I know he'll buy a Rolls), \
+death will never find him. Living will be all
+
+he'll ever do, because it will be all \
+he'll ever need to do. He is the eternal new, \
+the forever youth: this is the simple role \
+of every celebrity, to let us forget death. \
+Bieber didn't make a mistake on the Sistine \
+Chapel's name. He merely showed that someday
+
+all old names must go, that on some day \
+a name must die so that the thing, which is all \
+that matters, can stay as it was in the sixteenth \
+century: fresh, ostentatious, and brand new. \
+In a way, the name becomes a Christ, experiencing death \
+so the world doesn't have to. But I am wary of this role
+
+for a name. It seems a name gives meaning, rolls \
+the general idea together with the concrete, daily \
+toil of the mundane. Are not life and death \
+intertwined? Is not everything tied up all \
+with everything? I guess I'm saying the new \
+necessarily comes from the old, as every sixteen-
+
+year-old has a parent. Life rolls to death, and all \
+is tied together. Each day is born of night, and dies so new \
+morning can occur. Even the sixteenth chapel holds death.