Friday, January 28, 2005

Everday Apocalypse

I’m loving this book.  David Dark has a somewhat dense (as in heavy wording) style of writing, but his prose is very apocalyptic… smile

We aparently have the “apocalypse” all wrong.  In its root meaning, it’s not about destruction or fortune-telling; it’s about revealing.  It’s what James Joyce calls an epiphany - the moment you realize that all your so-called love for the young lady, all your professions, all your dreams, and all your efforts to get her to notice you were the exercise of an unkind and obsessive vanity.  It wasn’t about her at all.  It was about you.  The real world, within which you’ve lived and moved and had your being, has unveiled itself.  It’s starting to come to you.  You aren’t who you’ve made yourself out to be.  An apocalypse has just occurred, or a revelation, if you prefer.

He goes on to point out these apocalyptic moments that he finds in pop-culture, in Radiohead and the Simspons, The Truman Show and The Matrix, The music of Beck and the strange surrealness of a Coen brothers film.  Simply fascinating, and revealing.

It has given me a calling to look for these everyday peices of apocalypic thought in the books I read to my kids (Dr. Suess is ALL OVER this...) or the movies I see with my buddies.


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