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author | Case Duckworth | 2015-04-14 16:36:17 -0700 |
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committer | Case Duckworth | 2015-04-14 16:36:17 -0700 |
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- File hierarchy is now as follows: - / - appendix/ < appendix source files - backlinks/ < backlink sources & builds - hapax/ < *.hapax source files - scripts/ < scripts, like *.js, *.hs, etc. - templates/ < templates for outputs - text/ < source files - trunk/ < assets, like css, images, heads, etc. - index.html - *.html - Makefile
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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: The Sixteenth Chapel | ||
3 | genre: verse | ||
4 | |||
5 | id: sixteenth-chapel | ||
6 | toc: "The sixteenth chapel" | ||
7 | |||
8 | epigraph: | ||
9 | content: "Canadian High School!" | ||
10 | attrib: David Letterman | ||
11 | link: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_pwLyeoqk' | ||
12 | |||
13 | dedication: Max | ||
14 | |||
15 | project: | ||
16 | title: Stark Raving | ||
17 | class: stark | ||
18 | order: 17 | ||
19 | next: | ||
20 | - title: Last bastion | ||
21 | link: last-bastion | ||
22 | - title: Something about all music being performances of _4′33″_ in places where other bands happen to be playing | ||
23 | link: music-433 | ||
24 | prev: | ||
25 | - title: Worse looking over | ||
26 | link: worse-looking-over | ||
27 | - title: Riptide of memory | ||
28 | link: riptide_memory | ||
29 | ... | ||
30 | |||
31 | | If Justin Bieber isn't going for the sixteenth | ||
32 | | chapel, I'm not either. I admit he is my role | ||
33 | | model. He's so current, so fresh and so new, | ||
34 | | and Michelangelo is so old, his art so dated. | ||
35 | | Where is the love in those old paintings? All | ||
36 | | I see is [creation][], [judgment][], and [death][]--- | ||
37 | |||
38 | | and I don't get the preoccupation with death. | ||
39 | | I'm about life! Ever since my sixteenth | ||
40 | | birthday, when me and my two sisters all | ||
41 | | nearly died when the car I was driving rolled | ||
42 | | into a creek. Even though I've [forgotten the date][], | ||
43 | | I think it keeps me thinking on the new, | ||
44 | |||
45 | | something Biebs would be proud of if he knew. | ||
46 | | I look at him, and see the [opposite of death][] | ||
47 | | in his eyes, his youthful smile: though someday | ||
48 | | he may [be a father][], and later host a Sweet Sixteen | ||
49 | | for his daughter (for whom I know he'll buy a Rolls), | ||
50 | | death will never find him. Living will be all | ||
51 | |||
52 | | he'll ever do, because it will be all | ||
53 | | he'll ever need to do. He is the eternal new, | ||
54 | | the [forever youth:][] this is the simple [role][] | ||
55 | | of every celebrity, to let us forget death. | ||
56 | | Bieber didn't make a mistake on the Sistine | ||
57 | | Chapel's name. He merely showed that someday | ||
58 | |||
59 | | all old names must go, that on some day | ||
60 | | a name must die so that the thing, which is all | ||
61 | | that matters, can stay as it was in the sixteenth | ||
62 | | century: fresh, ostentatious, and brand new. | ||
63 | | In a way, [the name becomes a Christ][], experiencing death | ||
64 | | so the world doesn't have to. But I am wary of this role | ||
65 | |||
66 | | for a name. It seems a name gives meaning, rolls | ||
67 | | the general idea together with the concrete, daily | ||
68 | | toil of the mundane. Are not life and death | ||
69 | | intertwined? Is not everything tied up all | ||
70 | | with everything? I guess I'm saying the new | ||
71 | | necessarily comes from the old, as every sixteen- | ||
72 | |||
73 | | year-old has a parent. [Life rolls to death][], and all | ||
74 | | is tied together. Each day is born of night, and dies so new | ||
75 | | morning can occur. Even the sixteenth chapel holds death. | ||
76 | |||
77 | [role]: words-meaning.html | ||
78 | [death]: deathstrumpet.html | ||
79 | [opposite of death]: death-zone.html | ||
80 | [creation]: creation-myth.html | ||
81 | [judgment]: movingsideways.html | ||
82 | [forgotten the date]: riptide_memory.html | ||
83 | [be a father]: i-am.html | ||
84 | [forever youth:]: about-the-author.html | ||
85 | [the name becomes a Christ]: nothing-is-ever-over.html | ||
86 | [Life rolls to death]: ouroboros_memory.html | ||