From b5f04621a188ffd07463d66c233601a32e970f11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 16:46:17 -0700 Subject: First complete src/ linking complete --- src/sixteenth-chapel.txt | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/sixteenth-chapel.txt') diff --git a/src/sixteenth-chapel.txt b/src/sixteenth-chapel.txt index 9e568a3..373a428 100644 --- a/src/sixteenth-chapel.txt +++ b/src/sixteenth-chapel.txt @@ -28,47 +28,58 @@ project: ... If Justin Bieber isn't going for the sixteenth \ -chapel, I'm not either. I admit he is my role \ -model. He's so current, so fresh and so new, \ -and Michelangelo is so old, his art so dated. \ -Where is the love in those old paintings? All \ -I see is creation, judgment, and death--- +chapel, I'm not either. I admit he is my role \ +model. He's so current, so fresh and so new, \ +and Michelangelo is so old, his art so dated. \ +Where is the love in those old paintings? All \ +I see is [creation][], [judgment][], and [death][]--- -and I don't get the preoccupation with death. \ -I'm about life! Ever since my sixteenth \ +and I don't get the preoccupation with death. \ +I'm about life! Ever since my sixteenth \ birthday, when me and my two sisters all \ nearly died when the car I was driving rolled \ -into a creek. Even though I've forgotten the date, \ +into a creek. Even though I've [forgotten the date][], \ I think it keeps me thinking on the new, -something Biebs would be proud of if he knew. \ -I look at him, and see the opposite of death \ +something Biebs would be proud of if he knew. \ +I look at him, and see the [opposite of death][] \ in his eyes, his youthful smile: though someday \ -he may be a father, and later host a Sweet Sixteen \ +he may [be a father][], and later host a Sweet Sixteen \ for his daughter (who I know he'll buy a Rolls), \ -death will never find him. Living will be all +death will never find him. Living will be all he'll ever do, because it will be all \ -he'll ever need to do. He is the eternal new, \ -the forever youth: this is the simple role \ -of every celebrity, to let us forget death. \ +he'll ever need to do. He is the eternal new, \ +the [forever youth:][] this is the simple [role][] \ +of every celebrity, to let us forget death. \ Bieber didn't make a mistake on the Sistine \ -Chapel's name. He merely showed that someday +Chapel's name. He merely showed that someday all old names must go, that on some day \ a name must die so that the thing, which is all \ that matters, can stay as it was in the sixteenth \ -century: fresh, ostentatious, and brand new. \ -In a way, the name becomes a Christ, experiencing death \ -so the world doesn't have to. But I am wary of this role +century: fresh, ostentatious, and brand new. \ +In a way, [the name becomes a Christ][], experiencing death \ +so the world doesn't have to. But I am wary of this role -for a name. It seems a name gives meaning, rolls \ +for a name. It seems a name gives meaning, rolls \ the general idea together with the concrete, daily \ -toil of the mundane. Are not life and death \ -intertwined? Is not everything tied up all \ -with everything? I guess I'm saying the new \ +toil of the mundane. Are not life and death \ +intertwined? Is not everything tied up all \ +with everything? I guess I'm saying the new \ necessarily comes from the old, as every sixteen- -year-old has a parent. Life rolls to death, and all \ -is tied together. Each day is born of night, and dies so new \ -morning can occur. Even the sixteenth chapel holds death. +year-old has a parent. [Life rolls to death][], and all \ +is tied together. Each day is born of night, and dies so new \ +morning can occur. Even the sixteenth chapel holds death. + +[role]: words-meaning.html +[death]: deathstrumpet.html +[opposite of death]: death-zone.html +[creation]: creation-myth.html +[judgment]: movingsideways.html +[forgotten the date]: riptide_memory.html +[be a father]: i-am.html +[forever youth:]: about-the-author.html +[the name becomes a Christ]: nothing-is-ever-over.html +[Life rolls to death]: ouroboros_memory.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81