Apocolypse Blooms

[talktooloose]

I've always been attracted to apocolyptic imagery. I like Science Fiction tales with global shakeups and cities blasted to rubble. I grew up on Godzilla rising from the sea, razing and grazing on Tokyo.

So, last Friday, Snake and I visited St. John the Divine Cathedral on Manhattan's Upper West side and I was delighted to find this limestone carving from the 1990s on one of the entrance portals:



Hardly spooky, eh? (he says, randomly slipping into hoser dialect)

I think the appeal of the apocolyptic is the relief of the great cleansing. All this daily pain and compromise would be washed away in one great, orgasmic spasm. So much easier than the slow, incremental work of change.

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[deuterium-d3.livejournal.com]

The nineties had all those "apocalyptic close-call" movies, didn't they... Armageddon, Independence Day, Deep Impact. Hmmmm, I wonder if that societal phase is over or still going strong. Heh, just an idle thought..