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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000063.txt from 2006/02

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Quote of the Day...A Celebration and Memory
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:16:16 -0500


At 9 o'clock, or thereabouts, the flare of torchlights shattered the=20
darkness of Magazine and Julia Streets, bands burst into symphony, and the=20=
Mistick=20
Krewe stood revealed=E2=80=94a company of demons, rich and realistic, movin=
g in a=20
procession that seemed to blaze from some secret chamber of the earth. They=
came!=20
Led by the festive Comus, high on his royal seat, and Satan, high on a hill=
,=20
far blazing as a mount, with pyramids and towers from diamond quarries hewn=
,=20
and rocks of gold; the palace of great Lucifer. The demon actors in Milton'=
s=20
Paradise Lost. The first torchlit scenic procession in New Orleans, a=20
revolution in street pageantry, a revelation in artistic effects.

The Mistick Krewe: Chronicles of Comus and his Kin =20
(Carnival Press, 1931) Perry Young =20

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