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[[Reading Notes]] on a text by Eric Jorink: Van omineuze tot glorieuze hemeltekens; | [[Reading Notes]] on a text by Eric Jorink: Van omineuze tot glorieuze hemeltekens; | ||
Which is in: Kometen, monsters en muilezels. Uitgeverij Arcadia, Haarlem 1999, ISBN: 90-6613-008-3 | Which is in: Kometen, monsters en muilezels. Uitgeverij Arcadia, Haarlem 1999, ISBN: 90-6613-008-3 | ||
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==== Constantijn Huygens: ==== | ==== Constantijn Huygens: ==== | ||
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Daer elck soo veel af snapt en elck soo weinig weet | Daer elck soo veel af snapt en elck soo weinig weet | ||
Sij wandelt om en om: wie dreight sij meer of minder | Sij wandelt om en om: wie dreight sij meer of minder | ||
- | Een Coningh sterft in't Oost: daer over treurt men ginder. | + | Een Coningh sterft in't Oost: daer over treurt men ginder. |
- | From Huygens' | + | |
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==== Jacob Cats: ==== | ==== Jacob Cats: ==== | ||
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Voor gewis ons beelden aff | Voor gewis ons beelden aff | ||
Teykens van des Heeren straff. | Teykens van des Heeren straff. | ||
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From Cats': ' | From Cats': ' | ||
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====Johannes Graevius: ==== | ====Johannes Graevius: ==== | ||
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- | "Want wat sietmen schoonder, wat is'er vermaeckelijker, | + | 'Want wat sietmen schoonder, wat is'er vermaeckelijker, |
+ | dan dese Hemelsche vyerige klooten, | ||
+ | met dewelcke door den onsterffelijcken Schepper ende Werckmeester van dit Geheel-al, | ||
+ | de openen ende als onbepaelde velden des Hemels, gelijck een tuyn met aengename bloemen, | ||
+ | door een verwonderendwaerdige veranderinge ende schoonheyd, besaeyt ende onderscheyden zijn.' | ||
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From Graevius': | From Graevius': | ||
==== Nicolaus Mulerius: ==== | ==== Nicolaus Mulerius: ==== | ||
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- | "Wy worden daghelijcx gheleert ende vermaent, dat Godt niet alleenlijck Rechtvaerdich is, maer oock Barmhertich. Sijn rechtvaerdicheyt siet op onse verdiensten, | + | 'Wy worden daghelijcx gheleert ende vermaent, dat Godt niet alleenlijck Rechtvaerdich is, maer oock Barmhertich. |
- | + | Sijn rechtvaerdicheyt siet op onse verdiensten, | |
+ | als van suypen, brassen, proncken ende hovaerdich pralen, mitsgaders lieghen ende bedriegen, ende t' | ||
+ | verwecken wy Gods toorn om sijn straffe te laten gaen over landen ende luyden: | ||
+ | Maer sijn bermherticheyt is so groot dat hy ons laet waerschouwen door sijn extraordinaris boden, | ||
+ | als nu door dese Hemelse Trompet ende Morgenwecker.' | ||
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From Mulerus': | From Mulerus': | ||
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- | To me as a reader, the poems by Cats and Huygens in which comets are presented as ominous signs of Gods wrath, remind me of the cold dark and forbidding view of the cosmos that resided in western society until the early nineties, when the Hubble space telescope suddenly filled the endless black void with pictures rich in textures and colours. Just think back to the menacing abyss through which the concrete and tarmacked spaceships of Battlestar Galactica drifted. Space seemed like an empty car-park, filled only with dead lumps of grey rock and hard white light from distant stars. | + | To me as a reader, the poems by Cats and Huygens in which comets are presented as ominous signs of Gods wrath, remind me of the cold dark and forbidding view of the cosmos that resided in western society until the early nineties, when the Hubble space telescope suddenly filled the endless black void with pictures rich in textures and colors. Just think back to the menacing abyss through which the concrete and tarmacked spaceships of Battlestar Galactica drifted. Space seemed like an empty car-park, filled only with dead lumps of grey rock and hard white light from distant stars. |
And after the Hubble-telescope, | And after the Hubble-telescope, | ||
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See also ✪ Cometen Werck >> http:// | See also ✪ Cometen Werck >> http:// | ||
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