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| name, iohannis : there is something eternally chilling about salome's repeated call for the head of john the baptist in strauss' opera : 'ich will den kopf johannes' : (understanding that this salome of strauss, from oscar wilde, is the previously discarded sexually pernicious femme fatale of fin de siecle consciousness, whereas the present consideration of salome is the combined victimized daughter salome and manipulative usurping mother herodias, nevertheless) the echo of 'den kopf johannes' rings out in singularly destructive potency in an elastic proof of images : why is her shrill call so potent : why does one suddenly feel a chord of empathy with the unsympathetic herod when she makes her uncompromising claim : her demand is incomprehensible, even with the back story provided by herodias' circumstance : indeed, why does herodias care what john thinks about her marriage when john is imprisoned and presumably helpless against her : salome's call is baffling and gruesome and to me there is a finality and humiliation in the act which increases the dramatic import [nostalgia] of the act to an unrivaled level : somehow johannen is tied to the divine logos [meta106], as is confirmed by augustine who elucidates the importance of john's father, zacharias, who is struck dumb in disbelief of john's birth and then 'finally, he is born, he receives a name and his father's tongue is loosed' : john declares: 'i am the voice of one crying in the wilderness' : augustine concludes: 'john is the voice, but the Lord in the beginning was the Word' [logos] : also, can it be coincidence that it is st. john's gospel that characterizes the word [logos] which had been 'with God from the beginning' : important to note is augustine's phrase: 'he receives a name and his father's tongue is loosed' the emphasis on his receiving a name and the importance of his voice are evidence that iohannis, the person name, is woven into the word, plan, language [logos] that we propose to illuminate through an elastic proof comprised of images : the name iohannis must somehow be an interwoven prologue (john the baptist) and epilogue (st john) to the fundament of the logos, the sound before the sound and after the sound that we seek : whereas john's father zachary loses his voice until john is named, salome terminates john's voice : the reason salome's claim is so wretched and final is that, in cutting his throat, she attacks exactly the anatomy of his voice : |
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