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2title: The Sixteenth Chapel
3genre: verse
4
5id: sixteenth-chapel
6toc: "The sixteenth chapel"
7
8epigraph:
9 content: "Canadian High School!"
10 attrib: David Letterman
11 link: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_pwLyeoqk'
12
13dedication: Max
14
15project:
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