Out On Blue Six
“Damien’s in the Catacombs had been a cathedral.
Cathedral, clunkhead, as in the principal church of a diocese, the seat or throne of a bishop; church as in chapel, basilica, abbey, temple, meeting house, as in building designed as a place of worship, as in house for God. Got it now? Why? Because in those days God the invisible and indivisible could only be approached through the mystery of faith. Yes, faith, sib: then you couldn’t just punch up God: full specifications on your Lares and Penates unit; you didn’t get pills in your butsudan when you were low or visits from the MiniPain counselor when something bothered you as proof that the divine eyes were watching over you; the Hand of Providence wasn’t tattooed “Food Corps” or “Universal Power and Light” or “SHELTER” or “Greater Yu Rapid Transit Authority”: you believed in what you could not see. Yes, I know. Maybe that’s why they built temples and shrines and cathedrals so big.
And maybe that was why they built them the way they did:... maybe God liked Gothic, maybe heaven was all Early English Decorated flying buttresses, piers, arches, fan vaults, machicolations, spires, cloisters, and chapter houses, with plaster angels playing trumpets and plaster saints with their hands fused together in an attitude of prayer for all eternity and their eyeballs rolled up in their hollow heads, with maybe the odd gargoyle sitting around on the edge of heaven to keep the clawing hands of the clawing masses of the damned off the gingerbread.MoreLess
Cathedral, clunkhead, as in the principal church of a diocese, the seat or throne of a bishop; church as in chapel, basilica, abbey, temple, meeting house, as in building designed as a place of worship, as in house for God. Got it now? Why? Because in those days God the invisible and indivisible could only be approached through the mystery of faith. Yes, faith, sib: then you couldn’t just punch up God: full specifications on your Lares and Penates unit; you didn’t get pills in your butsudan when you were low or visits from the MiniPain counselor when something bothered you as proof that the divine eyes were watching over you; the Hand of Providence wasn’t tattooed “Food Corps” or “Universal Power and Light” or “SHELTER” or “Greater Yu Rapid Transit Authority”: you believed in what you could not see. Yes, I know. Maybe that’s why they built temples and shrines and cathedrals so big.
And maybe that was why they built them the way they did:... maybe God liked Gothic, maybe heaven was all Early English Decorated flying buttresses, piers, arches, fan vaults, machicolations, spires, cloisters, and chapter houses, with plaster angels playing trumpets and plaster saints with their hands fused together in an attitude of prayer for all eternity and their eyeballs rolled up in their hollow heads, with maybe the odd gargoyle sitting around on the edge of heaven to keep the clawing hands of the clawing masses of the damned off the gingerbread.MoreLess
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