lauantai 24. joulukuuta 2022

Alkaen ilosta, päättyen iloon

Erään viisaan saatesanoilla hyvää joulua kaikille!


"But the 'consolation' of fairy-tales has another aspect than the imaginative satisfaction of ancient desires. Far more important is the Consolation of the Happy Ending. Almost I would venture to assert that all complete fairy-stories must have it. At least I would say that Tragedy is the true form of Drama, its highest function; but the opposite is true of Fairy-story. Since we do not appear to possess a word that expresses this opposite — I will call it Eucatastrophe. The eucatastrophic tale is the true form of fairy-tale, and its highest function. 

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The Birth of Christ is the eucatastrophe of Man’s history. The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation. This story begins and ends in joy. It has pre-eminently the ‘inner consistency of reality’. There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many sceptical men have accepted as true on its own merits. For the Art of it has the supremely convincing tone of Primary Art, that is, of Creation. To reject it leads either to sadness or to wrath.” 

                     -J.R.R. Tolkien

keskiviikko 21. joulukuuta 2022

Abbaa

Pimeys taittuu, joulu saapuu ja uusi vuosikin. Sen kunniaksi coveroin vähän Abbaa. Tarkalleen ottaen tämä on mukaelma Mike Oldfieldin versiosta, mutta melodia on toki sama. Ei tällaista olisi sävelletty kotoisilla itkuvirsikunnaillamme, koko yhtye oli niin iloisen umpiruotsalainen kuin voi olla. Niin paljon kuin itseäni mollit usein puhuttelevat, on musiikki kaikkien tunteiden spektriä ja kotiintulon riemu kajahtaa duurissa.