about summary refs log tree commit diff stats
path: root/sixteenth-chapel.html
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'sixteenth-chapel.html')
-rw-r--r--sixteenth-chapel.html84
1 files changed, 84 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sixteenth-chapel.html b/sixteenth-chapel.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d765a37 --- /dev/null +++ b/sixteenth-chapel.html
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
1<!DOCTYPE html>
2<!-- AUTOCENTO OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE -->
3<!-- vim: fdm=indent
4-->
5<html lang="en">
6<head>
7<meta charset="utf-8">
8<meta name="generator" content="pandoc">
9<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes">
10<meta name="author" content="Case Duckworth">
11
12<title>The Sixteenth Chapel | Autocento of the breakfast table</title>
13<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="trunk/favico.png" />
14
15<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="trunk/style.css">
16<script src="scripts/randomize.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>
17<script src="scripts/hylo.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>
18
19<!--[if lt IE 9]>
20<script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script>
21<![endif]-->
22</head>
23<body id="sixteenth-chapel" class="stark">
24
25<article class="container">
26<header>
27<!-- title -->
28<h1 class="title">The Sixteenth Chapel</h1>
29
30
31<div class="header-extra">
32<!-- dedication -->
33<div class="dedication">Max</div>
34
35<!-- epigraph -->
36<div class="epigraph">
37<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_pwLyeoqk">Canadian High School!</a>
38
39<div class="attrib">David Letterman</div>
40</div>
41</div>
42</header>
43
44
45<section class="content verse">
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
54</article>
55<nav>
56<div class="anchors">
57<a href="backlinks/sixteenth-chapel.html" id="backlinks" title="Links to this page">
58&phi;
59</a>
60<a href="index.html" id="coverlink" title="To cover">&loz;</a>
61<a href="#" id="randomizelink" title="ERROR">&xi;</a>
62</div>
63
64<a class="prevlink" href="worse-looking-over.html"
65title="Previous article in Stark Raving">
66Worse looking over
67</a>
68<a class="prevlink" href="riptide_memory.html"
69title="Previous article in Stark Raving">
70Riptide of memory
71</a>
72
73<a class="nextlink" href="last-bastion.html"
74title="Next article in Stark Raving">
75Last bastion
76</a>
77<a class="nextlink" href="music-433.html"
78title="Next article in Stark Raving">
79Something about all music being performances of <em>4′33″</em> in places where other bands happen to be playing
80</a>
81</nav>
82
83</body>
84</html>
© 2022 C. Duckworth. generated by cgit. comments, issues, and patches welcome at < git at acdw dot net >.