SUCH A SILENCE
Regularly, my mother would sharpen an already sharp knife on the concrete floor,knocking sparks out of it as she did so. She would go out to the fowl-house and come back with an outraged,red,squawking cock. Wedging him between her thighs,she would pluck the throat feathers and then,cutting off his gloriously combed and wattled head,she would let the sometimes spasming,spattering rope of blood flow down into a bowl where it would settle into an accusation all the more dreadful because it was so serene.
Outside, on a little rise in the yard,I had often held the basin to the red throat-torrent from a pig we were killing,held it till her last gurgle,held it till her last unsquealing collapse into cuttable meat.
Into meat so quietly cuttable that this, too was a horror of accusation.
As accusation,the quiet was more frightful than the squeal.
What was it like,the silence of Iphigeneia after her last gurgle?
What was it like,the silence of Christ after his last gurgle?
How did the mountains survive such silence? How did the stars survive it?
One thing was sure. It is a tough universe we live in.
Or was it that the universe has decided to go blind and go deaf? Is that the only way it can cope with being what it is?
I couldn't say. Not then. Not for a long time after.
John Moriarty
-Nostos-
For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself.
He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ's blood on the cross.
Colossians 1:19-20
2 comments:
All just for me.
There is no evidence whatsoever that anyone named Jesus as referred to in the Bible myths ever existed. There is not one contemporary account of any Jesus and not least because this alleged god couldn’t write his own name. Not only that the letter J only came into use in the middle ages. Common sense alone should be enough to figure out that if some guy in the late Bronze Age was brining people back from the dead and scooting across water everyone would have been scribbling like blazes. But no, everything written about the alleged existence of Jesus was invented long after he was supposed to be doing his thing. It's preposterous nonsense.
Henry De Butler
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