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| 29 | <h1 class="title">The Sixteenth Chapel</h1> | 28 | <h1 class="title">The Sixteenth Chapel</h1> |
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| 31 | 29 | ||
| 32 | <div class="header-extra"> | ||
| 33 | <!-- dedication --> | ||
| 34 | <div class="dedication">Max</div> | ||
| 35 | |||
| 36 | <!-- epigraph --> | ||
| 37 | <div class="epigraph"> | ||
| 38 | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_pwLyeoqk">Canadian High School!</a> | ||
| 39 | |||
| 40 | <div class="attrib">David Letterman</div> | ||
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| 43 | </header> | ||
| 44 | 30 | ||
| 45 | 31 | <div class="header-extra"> | |
| 46 | <section class="content verse"> | 32 | <!-- dedication --> |
| 47 | <p><span class="line">If Justin Bieber isn’t going for the sixteenth</span><span class="line">chapel, I’m not either. I admit he is my role</span><span class="line">model. He’s so current, so fresh and so new,</span><span class="line">and Michelangelo is so old, his art so dated.</span><span class="line">Where is the love in those old paintings? All</span><span class="line">I see is <a href="creation-myth.html">creation</a>, <a href="movingsideways.html">judgment</a>, and <a href="deathstrumpet.html">death</a>—</span></p> | 33 | <div class="dedication">Max</div> |
| 48 | <p><span class="line">and I don’t get the preoccupation with death.</span><span class="line">I’m about life! Ever since my sixteenth</span><span class="line">birthday, when me and my two sisters all</span><span class="line">nearly died when the car I was driving rolled</span><span class="line">into a creek. Even though I’ve <a href="riptide_memory.html">forgotten the date</a>,</span><span class="line">I think it keeps me thinking on the new,</span></p> | ||
| 49 | <p><span class="line">something Biebs would be proud of if he knew.</span><span class="line">I look at him, and see the <a href="death-zone.html">opposite of death</a></span><span class="line">in his eyes, his youthful smile: though someday</span><span class="line">he may <a href="i-am.html">be a father</a>, and later host a Sweet Sixteen</span><span class="line">for his daughter (for whom I know he’ll buy a Rolls),</span><span class="line">death will never find him. Living will be all</span></p> | ||
| 50 | <p><span class="line">he’ll ever do, because it will be all</span><span class="line">he’ll ever need to do. He is the eternal new,</span><span class="line">the <a href="about-the-author.html">forever youth:</a> this is the simple <a href="words-meaning.html">role</a></span><span class="line">of every celebrity, to let us forget death.</span><span class="line">Bieber didn’t make a mistake on the Sistine</span><span class="line">Chapel’s name. He merely showed that someday</span></p> | ||
| 51 | <p><span class="line">all old names must go, that on some day</span><span class="line">a name must die so that the thing, which is all</span><span class="line">that matters, can stay as it was in the sixteenth</span><span class="line">century: fresh, ostentatious, and brand new.</span><span class="line">In a way, <a href="nothing-is-ever-over.html">the name becomes a Christ</a>, experiencing death</span><span class="line">so the world doesn’t have to. But I am wary of this role</span></p> | ||
| 52 | <p><span class="line">for a name. It seems a name gives meaning, rolls</span><span class="line">the general idea together with the concrete, daily</span><span class="line">toil of the mundane. Are not life and death</span><span class="line">intertwined? Is not everything tied up all</span><span class="line">with everything? I guess I’m saying the new</span><span class="line">necessarily comes from the old, as every sixteen-</span></p> | ||
| 53 | <p><span class="line">year-old has a parent. <a href="ouroboros_memory.html">Life rolls to death</a>, and all</span><span class="line">is tied together. Each day is born of night, and dies so new</span><span class="line">morning can occur. Even the sixteenth chapel holds death.</span></p> | ||
| 54 | </section> | ||
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| 56 | <nav> | ||
| 57 | <div class="anchors"> | ||
| 58 | <a href="sixteenth-chapel_backlinks.htm" id="back-link" title="Links to this page"> | ||
| 59 | φ | ||
| 60 | </a> | ||
| 61 | <a href="index.html" id="cover-link" title="To cover">◊</a> | ||
| 62 | <a href="#" id="lozenge" title="ERROR">ξ</a> | ||
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| 64 | 34 | ||
| 65 | <a class="prevlink" href="worse-looking-over.html" | 35 | <!-- epigraph --> |
| 66 | title="Previous article in Stark Raving"> | 36 | <div class="epigraph"> |
| 67 | Worse looking over | 37 | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_pwLyeoqk">Canadian High School!</a> |
| 68 | </a> | 38 | |
| 69 | <a class="prevlink" href="riptide_memory.html" | 39 | <div class="attrib">David Letterman</div> |
| 70 | title="Previous article in Stark Raving"> | 40 | </div> |
| 71 | Riptide of memory | 41 | </div> |
| 72 | </a> | 42 | </header> |
| 73 | 43 | ||
| 74 | <a class="nextlink" href="last-bastion.html" | 44 | |
| 75 | title="Next article in Stark Raving"> | 45 | <section class="content verse"> |
| 76 | Last bastion | 46 | <p><span class="line">If Justin Bieber isn’t going for the sixteenth</span><span class="line">chapel, I’m not either. I admit he is my role</span><span class="line">model. He’s so current, so fresh and so new,</span><span class="line">and Michelangelo is so old, his art so dated.</span><span class="line">Where is the love in those old paintings? All</span><span class="line">I see is <a href="creation-myth.html">creation</a>, <a href="movingsideways.html">judgment</a>, and <a href="deathstrumpet.html">death</a>—</span></p> |
| 77 | </a> | 47 | <p><span class="line">and I don’t get the preoccupation with death.</span><span class="line">I’m about life! Ever since my sixteenth</span><span class="line">birthday, when me and my two sisters all</span><span class="line">nearly died when the car I was driving rolled</span><span class="line">into a creek. Even though I’ve <a href="riptide_memory.html">forgotten the date</a>,</span><span class="line">I think it keeps me thinking on the new,</span></p> |
| 78 | <a class="nextlink" href="music-433.html" | 48 | <p><span class="line">something Biebs would be proud of if he knew.</span><span class="line">I look at him, and see the <a href="death-zone.html">opposite of death</a></span><span class="line">in his eyes, his youthful smile: though someday</span><span class="line">he may <a href="i-am.html">be a father</a>, and later host a Sweet Sixteen</span><span class="line">for his daughter (for whom I know he’ll buy a Rolls),</span><span class="line">death will never find him. Living will be all</span></p> |
| 79 | title="Next article in Stark Raving"> | 49 | <p><span class="line">he’ll ever do, because it will be all</span><span class="line">he’ll ever need to do. He is the eternal new,</span><span class="line">the <a href="about-the-author.html">forever youth:</a> this is the simple <a href="words-meaning.html">role</a></span><span class="line">of every celebrity, to let us forget death.</span><span class="line">Bieber didn’t make a mistake on the Sistine</span><span class="line">Chapel’s name. He merely showed that someday</span></p> |
| 80 | Something about all music being performances of <em>4′33″</em> in places where other bands happen to be playing | 50 | <p><span class="line">all old names must go, that on some day</span><span class="line">a name must die so that the thing, which is all</span><span class="line">that matters, can stay as it was in the sixteenth</span><span class="line">century: fresh, ostentatious, and brand new.</span><span class="line">In a way, <a href="nothing-is-ever-over.html">the name becomes a Christ</a>, experiencing death</span><span class="line">so the world doesn’t have to. But I am wary of this role</span></p> |
| 81 | </a> | 51 | <p><span class="line">for a name. It seems a name gives meaning, rolls</span><span class="line">the general idea together with the concrete, daily</span><span class="line">toil of the mundane. Are not life and death</span><span class="line">intertwined? Is not everything tied up all</span><span class="line">with everything? I guess I’m saying the new</span><span class="line">necessarily comes from the old, as every sixteen-</span></p> |
| 82 | </nav> | 52 | <p><span class="line">year-old has a parent. <a href="ouroboros_memory.html">Life rolls to death</a>, and all</span><span class="line">is tied together. Each day is born of night, and dies so new</span><span class="line">morning can occur. Even the sixteenth chapel holds death.</span></p> |
| 53 | </section> | ||
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| 58 | φ | ||
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| 61 | <a href="#" id="randomizelink" title="ERROR">ξ</a> | ||
| 62 | </div> | ||
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| 70 | Riptide of memory | ||
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| 75 | Last bastion | ||
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| 79 | Something about all music being performances of <em>4′33″</em> in places where other bands happen to be playing | ||
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