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In this second part Katie (Howard's student) analyzes a picture called Jacob wrestling with an angel". She gives a full account of its artistic features:texture, colour etc.But she can't go beyond that.. It's impossible for her to express feelings, to find a spiritual meaning. The same as Howie. When He argues with Kiki about his "affair ", he is unable to communicate his feelings. Even Kiki tells him straight in his face. She is violent, she wrestles ..She is also hilarious 😁 Similarly in the Bible, Jacob wrestles with the angel until dawn(light) . Jacob, injured at his hip, fights ferociously. He needs a spiritual blessing.(Rembranbt's picture however shows no violence,) Indeed, this is a very well known biblical scene:"a little East of Jordan" a poem by Emily Dickinson refers to it. She was also very spiritual.
ReplyDeleteAmong the many music references in the book, I don't want to miss this opportunity to mention the Jeff Buckley’s cover of “Hallelujah”:
ReplyDelete“When, on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Jerome had played his parents an ethereal, far more beautiful version of ‘Halleluiah’ by a kid called Buckley, Kiki had thought yes, that’s right, our memories are getting more beautiful and less real every day. And then the kid drowned in the Mississippi, recalled Kiki now, looking up from her knees to the colourful painting that hung behind Carlene’s empty chair. Jerome had wept: the tears you cry for someone whom you never met who made something beautiful that you loved.” “On Beauty” (page 167)
Jeff Buckley’s cover of Hallelujah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4
About Buckley’s death
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/jeff-buckley-tragic-death-story/