All Hallowed Things: Culture Lost and Found Again
kinda metal idk. Wish I had enough money to buy pearls so I could clutch them Two Expressions of Fervor This past October, I noticed many people observing Halloween on the Hill in Boulder, doing everything from dressing up as a Sexy [Insert Noun Here] , to drinking, to partying, to trick-or-treating to giving out candy, performing in Halloween shows, watching halloween films, and all the rest. And these are all good appropriate things I suppose (I did all of those to various degrees throughout the season). But there was another group of people who decided to chant the Litany of the Saints while holding candles and processing from an All Saints Vigil Mass to a graveyard on the Hill. They looked and sounded equally spooky, perhaps apropos to the whole scene, though they nonetheless stood apart. But though there may not be explicit or aesthetic tension between these two expressions of fervor, there still remains a disconnect . And this disconnect arises from a culture which is existential...