THE MUSIC: ‘Divinites du Styx’ (Alceste by Gluck)
THE PAINTING: ‘Souls on the Banks of the River Styx’ (Edward Burne-Jones)
THE TEXT: ‘As for life on the other side, he has no faith in it. He expects to spend eternity on a river-bank with armies of other dead souls, waiting for a barge that will never arrive. The air will be cold and dank, the black waters will lap against the bank, his clothes will rot on his back and fall about his feet…’
(The Master of Petersburg by Coetzee)
6 comments:
disturbing..chilling..
brilliant combo though
It's one of those things... I'm reading another book by Coetzee, and it struck me that I know exactly where he got his description from, it's the Souls on the bank of the Styx!
Isn't it? (he even mentioned the barge)
And the music, Gluck (Callas of course) glorifies the Styx. the whole thing put together is magnificent... I wish I could add sound to the blog...
you did manage to send me the mp3 link in the comment section before. upload the link in the post window.
very nice gus.
On a mac I guess you could only upload pictures.
where are you today ya sabi?
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