diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'sixteenth-chapel.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | sixteenth-chapel.html | 65 |
1 files changed, 65 insertions, 0 deletions
| diff --git a/sixteenth-chapel.html b/sixteenth-chapel.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ffddc9 --- /dev/null +++ b/sixteenth-chapel.html | |||
| @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ | |||
| 1 | <!DOCTYPE html> | ||
| 2 | <!-- Template for compiled 'Autocento' documents --> | ||
| 3 | <html> | ||
| 4 | <head> | ||
| 5 | <meta charset="utf-8"> | ||
| 6 | <meta name="generator" content="pandoc"> | ||
| 7 | <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"> | ||
| 8 | <meta name="author" content="Case Duckworth"> | ||
| 9 | <!-- more meta tags here --> | ||
| 10 | <title>The Sixteenth Chapel | Autocento of the breakfast table</title> | ||
| 11 | <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/_common.css"> | ||
| 12 | <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/verse.css"> | ||
| 13 | <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/stark.css"> | ||
| 14 | <!--[if lt IE 9]> | ||
| 15 | <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script> | ||
| 16 | <![endif]--> | ||
| 17 | </head> | ||
| 18 | <body> | ||
| 19 | |||
| 20 | |||
| 21 | <header> | ||
| 22 | <!-- title --> | ||
| 23 | <h1 class="title">The Sixteenth Chapel</h1> | ||
| 24 | |||
| 25 | <!-- epigraph --> | ||
| 26 | <p class="epigraph"> | ||
| 27 | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_pwLyeoqk">Canadian High School!</a> | ||
| 28 | </p> | ||
| 29 | <p class="epigraph-attrib"> | ||
| 30 | — David Letterman | ||
| 31 | </p> | ||
| 32 | <!-- dedication --> | ||
| 33 | <p class="dedication"> | ||
| 34 | <em>for Max</em> | ||
| 35 | </p> | ||
| 36 | </header> | ||
| 37 | |||
| 38 | <section class="verse"> | ||
| 39 | <p>If Justin Bieber isn’t going for the sixteenth<br />chapel, I’m not either. I admit he is my role<br />model. He’s so current, so fresh and so new,<br />and Michelangelo is so old, his art so dated.<br />Where is the love in those old paintings? All<br />I see is <a href="creation-myth.html">creation</a>, <a href="movingsideways.html">judgment</a>, and <a href="deathstrumpet.html">death</a>—</p> | ||
| 40 | <p>and I don’t get the preoccupation with death.<br />I’m about life! Ever since my sixteenth<br />birthday, when me and my two sisters all<br />nearly died when the car I was driving rolled<br />into a creek. Even though I’ve <a href="riptide_memory.html">forgotten the date</a>,<br />I think it keeps me thinking on the new,</p> | ||
| 41 | <p>something Biebs would be proud of if he knew.<br />I look at him, and see the <a href="death-zone.html">opposite of death</a><br />in his eyes, his youthful smile: though someday<br />he may <a href="i-am.html">be a father</a>, and later host a Sweet Sixteen<br />for his daughter (who I know he’ll buy a Rolls),<br />death will never find him. Living will be all</p> | ||
| 42 | <p>he’ll ever do, because it will be all<br />he’ll ever need to do. He is the eternal new,<br />the <a href="about-the-author.html">forever youth:</a> this is the simple <a href="words-meaning.html">role</a><br />of every celebrity, to let us forget death.<br />Bieber didn’t make a mistake on the Sistine<br />Chapel’s name. He merely showed that someday</p> | ||
| 43 | <p>all old names must go, that on some day<br />a name must die so that the thing, which is all<br />that matters, can stay as it was in the sixteenth<br />century: fresh, ostentatious, and brand new.<br />In a way, <a href="nothing-is-ever-over.html">the name becomes a Christ</a>, experiencing death<br />so the world doesn’t have to. But I am wary of this role</p> | ||
| 44 | <p>for a name. It seems a name gives meaning, rolls<br />the general idea together with the concrete, daily<br />toil of the mundane. Are not life and death<br />intertwined? Is not everything tied up all<br />with everything? I guess I’m saying the new<br />necessarily comes from the old, as every sixteen-</p> | ||
| 45 | <p>year-old has a parent. <a href="ouroboros_memory.html">Life rolls to death</a>, and all<br />is tied together. Each day is born of night, and dies so new<br />morning can occur. Even the sixteenth chapel holds death.</p> | ||
| 46 | </section> | ||
| 47 | |||
| 48 | <nav> | ||
| 49 | <a href="worse-looking-over.html"> | ||
| 50 | <span class="prevlink">< Worse looking over</span> | ||
| 51 | </a> | ||
| 52 | <a href="riptide_memory.html"> | ||
| 53 | <span class="prevlink">< Riptide of memory</span> | ||
| 54 | </a> | ||
| 55 | <a href="#" id="lozenge"> ◊ </a> | ||
| 56 | <a href="last-bastion.html"> | ||
| 57 | <span class="nextlink">Last bastion ></span> | ||
| 58 | </a> | ||
| 59 | <a href="music-433.html"> | ||
| 60 | <span class="nextlink"><p>Something about all music being performances of <em>4'33"</em> in places where other bands happen to be playing</p> ></span> | ||
| 61 | </a> | ||
| 62 | </nav> | ||
| 63 | |||
| 64 | </body> | ||
| 65 | </html> | ||