1 That link to ee cummings is the website for the school district i went to when i lived in arizona... ...but on to something that is actually interesting. I don't much go for those funky looking poems either. so if you bloggers would like to read a poem also called "Sunday Morning" then check out Wallace Stevens, the first 5 lines alone are worth it and quite pertinent to the going's on on this, Good Friday. He writes of "complacencies", etc being used "to dissipate the holy hush of ancient sacrifice." http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem2017.html ...annika if you'd still like to read that criticism of Stevens I was writing it's almost done. I'm sure you are waiting with bated breath

2 i was wondering whether you ever finished that. : )

3 ...yeah i've got about 4 or 5 essays half finished lying around. i could use a live-in drill sergeant for a couple weeks... another good good friday poem, found via NRO today: The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood — Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good. - T. S Eliot's "Four Quartets"

4 Scof, i just read the NRO article from which you pulled that Eliot quote. The author, Thomas Hibbs, makes a grave error of interpretation regarding The Passion. Did you notice it? Referring to the devil character played by Rosalinda Celentano, he said: "This hooded, feminine-looking figure with a deep, sinister voice floats effortlessly among the Jewish crowd during the sentencing of Jesus, appears just behind the Roman guard overseeing the sadistic scourging of Christ, and then exults at evil's apparent victory at the moment of Christ's death." How did he misinterpret that final scene at Jesus' death? That wasn't exultation, that was despair. i thought it was obvious, the devil was screaming in agony over its defeat at the moment of Christ's death. Only someone who does not understand the gospels could make such a mistake.

5 You're right, he does miss that point. which is the point really. a number of verses make that clear, i.e. john 12:31 I wonder why Hibbs thinks that the devil thought he was winning? as far as that scene in the movie, I'll have to judge for myself this evening and get back to you. I haven't seen the movie yet but am going tonight to watch.