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Application Performance Monitoring
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Compuware Strobe is the industry-leading mainframe application performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications. With Strobe, IT departments can pinpoint application inefficiencies that cause excessive CPU consumption, elongated elapsed times and reduce hardware and software costs while increasing customer satisfaction.
Key Features and Benefits of Mainframe Application Performance Management
- Improve user code efficiency, transaction response time and throughput
- Locate and improve resource-consumptive database calls
- Quickly pinpoint the source of application inefficiencies
- Identify SQL statements and DB2 system services that cause excessive CPU time or wait time
- Receive detailed DB2 tuning information including catalog statistics and the number of GET PAGE requests for each SQL statement
- Enable new users to be more productive with a graphical interface for taking measurements and detecting mainframe application performance problems
- Quickly and easily identify tuning opportunities that will have the greatest impact on monthly software licensing costs by launching Strobe directly from BMC's MainView or Cost Analyzer for zEnterprise
- Resolve emerging performance issues before they impact application service levels by automatically launching Strobe directly from ConicIT as soon as anomalies/potential issues are detected
- Gain intelligence on individual transactions as they flow from an end-user's device through various layers of servers and back to the device through Strobe's integration with tools from AppDynamics and Dynatrace
Reduce the Complexity of Mainframe Application Performance Management
Strobe is the premier technology for managing mainframe application performance in complex environments. It measures the activity of both online and batch-processing applications in single and multiple system environments, detailing where and how time is spent during an application's execution.
Strobe can save hours of investigation by revealing program statements that consume excessive CPU resources, the percentage of CPU time used within modules and control sections, display procedure names and statement numbers, and provide the complete line of source code. With Strobe analysis you can identify a number of I/O problems including inefficient VSAM file buffering.
Compuware iStrobe extends the benefits of Strobe with an easy-to-use, browser-based graphical user interface. iStrobe identifies the access path used by the SQL statement as well as the relevant catalog statistics, providing all the data needed to improve the application's performance for both online and batch-processing applications. Additionally, iStrobe allows the user to perform "What If" analysis by making changes to SQL to see how they might affect the DB2 access path.
Many applications today span multiple CICS regions in a CICSPlex. iStrobe's CICSPlex reporting aggregates the data from multiple CICS measurements into a single report. Similarly for IMS, IMS transactions may execute in many IMS Message Processing Regions (MPRs) within an IMS subsystem. iStrobe will capture data on all the transactions providing the "single pane of glass" for analyzing the performance of an IMS transaction.
Proactively Determine What and When to Measure
Compuware AutoStrobe boosts productivity and increases the flexibility of Strobe and iStrobe by making the measurement process predictable and repeatable. You can create reusable measurement requests and schedule them to run at regular intervals. In addition, AutoStrobe can proactively initiate a Strobe measurement when abnormal behavior occurs in a program. Third-party monitors or other custom applications can also initiate a Strobe measurement using the Strobe applications programming interface (API).
AutoStrobe also includes Global Batch Monitoring, a feature that automates the detection of performance problems by using a rolling average of CPU consumption and elapsed time metrics. AutoStrobe automatically measures any job step that exceeds acceptable thresholds, while Global Batch Monitoring automatically sets CPU and elapsed time thresholds based on performance data from previous executions. A similar function for CICS online transactions monitors transaction performance and alert you to any performance issues before they become critical.
Integrations with Industry-leading tools
Mainframe workloads are growing significantly as organizations embrace mobile apps, Big Data analytics, IoT and other technologies. These technologies all place greater demands on mainframe-resident applications, data and transaction/compute processing power. New capabilities offered on the newly debuted IBM z13—including Java-enabled specialty processors—are also likely to attract new workloads. This workload growth drives up the Monthly License Charge (MLC).
To help customers minimize their MLCs, Strobe is tightly integrated with industry-leading products from BMC. The integration between these solutions enables customers to quickly and easily identify tuning opportunities that will have the greatest impact on their monthly software licensing costs by applying BMC Cost Analyzer's visual mapping to the detailed batch and transaction information provided by Compuware Strobe. These opportunities can include moving workloads to non-peak periods, running IBM subsystems on fewer LPARs, and capping LPAR utilization. The integration also makes cost management easier for mainframe operations staff by allowing them to invoke Strobe data collection directly from BMC MainView. Further information can be found here.
Strobe also integrates with ConicIT to help Ops staff proactively resolve emerging mainframe issues before they impact application service levels. ConicIT baselines normal mainframe behavior across thousands of metrics and then applies advanced algorithms to recognize in real time when those metrics deviate from the baseline. Predictive alerts from ConicIT automatically launch a Strobe measurement to provide the root-cause analysis to address the appropriate corresponding mainframe conditions. Strobe empowers even mainframe-inexperienced systems staff to act on those alerts by guiding them through an exploration of the problem using a combination of built-in platform intelligence and intuitive visualization.
Additionally, Strobe integrates with the industry leading end-to-end APM tools AppDynamics and Dynatrace, both of which provide views of individual transactions as they flow from the end-user's device to through the different layers of servers and back.
The AppDynamics integration enables users to capture SQL Analysis data on SQL that was initiated off platform to resolve issues with applications that use DB2 for z/OS. AppDynamics captures the JDBC call to DB2 but does not see what happens in DB2. Strobe for DB2 allows the user to analyze data with iStrobe's SQL Analysis feature and perform "what-if" analysis for improving it. All this can be done in the absence of a Strobe measurement, which provides almost no-overhead monitoring for DB2 DDF.
The dynaTrace integration provides the ability to capture high-level data on the business transaction as it flows from CICS region to CICS region in z/OS. Analysts who see a problem can request a Strobe measurement from the Dynatrace UI to provide root cause analysis of why a CICS transaction may be using more CPU.
Reduce Time and Resources Wasted in War Rooms
Too much time and too many resources are being wasted in "war rooms" where it may take many hours or days to find the root cause of a critical performance problem. Strobe quickly and easily pinpoints the root cause of performance problems even in complex environments with multiple languages, databases or teleprocessing subsystems, putting an end to finger-pointing.
Enable the Transitioning Mainframe Workforce
As experienced IT staff transition into retirement and new inexperienced employees come on board, a large amount of knowledge will be lost. Strobe provides "the answer" up front, supplying the precise, in-depth application performance data needed to locate and eliminate sources of excessive resource demand. Built-in intelligence reduces the reliance on human expertise and experience.
Integration with Compuware's modernized mainframe development environment, the Eclipse-based Topaz Workbench, means you can also initiate Strobe measurements for both active and future application instances from within a modern open development environment.
Analyze Which Mainframe Application Performance Problems to Fix
Strobe presents a detailed analysis of the most important tuning opportunities found. It quickly identifies performance problems that are the simplest to fix as well as the top five opportunities in major categories such as COBOL, DB2, Language Environment and file access.
Using the built-in analytics of iStrobe Strobe Insight, users can execute the reports to look for problems across many profiles or query SMF data to determine what jobs should be measured.
Measuring and Reporting on Mainframe Application Performance Management (APM) Success
Strobe Insight provides analysis for all major subsystem components, including batch, CICS, DB2 and IMS. Performance data can be stored in a Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle or DB2 database. Performance data can be stored in Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle or DB2 databases. Using the Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT), you can either view the supplied reports or easily craft new custom reports to view your data from a variety of perspectives. This allows you to follow trends, identify the best areas for tuning efforts, and isolate response time and CPU consumption problems.
Deep-dive Java Performance Analysis
Strobe seamlessly integrates with Topaz for Java Performance giving staff the ability to take comprehensive measurements of their whole Java environment. Strobe delivers valuable insight about Java Virtual Machine (JVM) jobs and specialty processor usage, while Topaz for Java Performance gives an inside view of the JVM for targeted tuning of Java programs.


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Having a small problem with displaying RSS feeds. In Views, I have attached an RSS feed to both the page and view version of a view. However, when I look at the page, it won't display the link to the RSS feed at the bottom. With Zero Point and Garland I have no issues, but with Danland/Danblog, it won't display the icon at the bottom of the view. Any idea what is causing this?
Comment #1danpros CreditAttribution: danpros commented
|» Closed (fixed)
The Danland default RSS is at the top (login/register). You will not find any RSS feed at the bottom except using block.
You can re-open this if the RSS is not shown at the top :)
Comment #4danpros CreditAttribution: danpros commented
|Closed (fixed)
|» Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
Its strange. Okay I'll postponed this first, need more info regarding this.
Comment #5zap-admin CreditAttribution: zap-admin commented
I've been running into the same issue on one of my sites. www.vaprz.com . I haven't made any mods to the RSS feed since I started building the site a few months ago. I can't for the life of me remember if it was ever showing up or not. I'm not picky about where it shows up... in the URL or next to login boxes.... I'm happy with any option. I looked at your instructions on how to remove it but I never made any modifications to that mentioned file. Guess I'll go take a look though and report back...... IF there's any additional information I can throw your way, as in... what do you need to see that might help... let me know. Love the theme.... looks great.
Comment #7zap-admin CreditAttribution: zap-admin commented
Hey Nathan,
I wish that had worked. The homepage of Vaprz.com is actually made with a panel, and the banner graphic that is part of Danland. So... unfortunately that fix won't work for me... I think. If you run across anything else please let me know.
Comment #9zap-admin CreditAttribution: zap-admin commented
Hey Nathan..... I mean the homepage of the site is already built using a panel.... in other words i'm already using the technique you have described. Unfortunately it doesn't flip on the RSS icon that's supposed to appear where the log in info is on the top right of the page.
Comment #10soundboy89 CreditAttribution: soundboy89 commented
Hi, I'm using Views 2 and made a new View which consists of a block, a page, and a feed. The feed icon never shows up in the page View, however it does appear at the bottom of the block (not what I want).
I tried every combination I could think of and still no icon. So I opted for a manual solution: since the feed can have a custom URL attached to it (news/rss in my case) then I manually wrote HTML code for an icon with a link pointing to that URL and used it as the page View's header (could be footer if you like).
I still don't know why the icon doesn't show up on its own, but in the meantime this seemed like an easy and effective workaround.
Comment #11KingMoore CreditAttribution: KingMoore commented
Under "Feed Settings" on your feed display, select click "Attach to" and select Page. This will put the RSS icon on your page view, at the bottom for me.
Comment #12CowTownFarmBoy CreditAttribution: CowTownFarmBoy commented
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I have put in the css to block the presentation of the Icon in the header. I may have to unblock that because of the following.
I want the icon for the feed to be closer to the actual content, so I have been trying to figure out how to have the same link/icon available in the content area preferably before the page title. I have tried to make some header available and to put something in the field like
!a class="feed-icon" title="Subscribe to News Releases" href="/?q=aboutus/news/feed">
!img width="16" height="16" alt="Subscribe to News Releases" src="http://mySite.com/misc/feed.png">
I tried to put this in a global test area on the page the feed is attached to but no icon displays.
Can I put an Icon and link somewhere in the content or am I limited to do it only the way Danland has it packaged in the upper right header region?
I also live the theme and have made most everything work that needs to be there. This is one of the last few customizations.
Comment #13CowTownFarmBoy CreditAttribution: CowTownFarmBoy commented
I got it. I first added a block that just had the HTML in it to make the image and link appear but was unsatisfactory.
Then I added a line of code in the page to write the feed-icon where I wanted it. To do this I added this line of code in the content area before the breadcrumb on the page.
print $feed_icons;
Works as I wanted it now.
Comment #14chawkins CreditAttribution: chawkins commented
If I wanted to simply add my own RSS icon wherever I want, how would I determine the correct link to add to the image? My understanding of RSS is that I have a url that will allow people to sign up for my syndication feed -- anyone know?
Comment #15leanne9 CreditAttribution: leanne9 commented
Posted by KingMoore on June 5, 2012 at 11:48pm
Under "Feed Settings" on your feed display, select click "Attach to" and select Page. This will put the RSS icon on your page view, at the bottom for me.
Ahh, this worked perfectly for me, exactly what I was looking to do-- thanks KingMoore!
Comment #16mathieso CreditAttribution: mathieso as a volunteer commented
Another solution. In the page/block footer:

latest-stuff-feed to whatevs the URL of your RSS feed is.

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- Raddle \Rad"dle\, v. t. To mark or paint with, or as with, raddle. ``Whitened and raddled old women.'' --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
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raddle — /ˈrædl/ (say radl) noun 1. a red variety of ochre, used especially to mark sheep for identification. 2. a coloured mark, as one made with raddle, placed upon sheep for identification or to indicate a badly shorn sheep. –verb (t) (raddled,… … Australian English dictionary
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Last Man Standing's Inglorious Baxters Perform 'Pie Rack'
If you missed this clip from last night's 'Last Man Standing' on ABC, you missed a skit by the 'Inglorious Baxters' (the comedy's three daughters) that rivals any Saturday Night Live digital short. Lesson learned? Don't break the heart of a Baxter girl, because she'll shut you out of her 'Pie Rack'. Lol.


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By Brett Christopherson, The (Appleton, Wis.) Post-Crescent
APPLETON, Wis. At the end of every season, Trinity College baseball coach Bill Decker uses the team banquet to hand out what he calls the Coach's Award.
He's the only one who votes on the honor. And normally, it's reserved for a single player.
But not this year.
PAIRINGS: NCAA baseball tournaments
"It went to the team," Decker said, chocking back emotion as he prepared to recite the soon-to-be completed plaque's inscription. "It simply says, 'The team of 2008. (New England Small College Athletic Conference) champions at 37-0. NCAA New England Division III regional champions at 41-0.' "
And the 30 players and four coaches who will soon receive their own 8-by-10-inch plaque will also find these words engraved near the bottom: 2008 National Champions.
The second-ranked Bantams entered Tuesday's final round of the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship at Fox Cities Stadium one win from completing a historic season.
They gladly settled for their first title instead as they bounced back from a surprising 4-3 setback to No. 6 Johns Hopkins University in the scheduled opener with a thrilling 5-4 rally in the decisive game of the double-elimination tournament.
Trinity, which won its first three tourney games and was idle on Monday, came into the day unbeaten at 44-0 and looking to become the only team in NCAA baseball history to get through a season unscathed and win the national championship.
But the Bantams (45-1) nearly muffed both dreams before mounting a dramatic bottom-of-the-ninth comeback in the nightcap that saw them push across a pair of runs – both on bases loaded walks – to stun the Blue Jays.
"I think the message was pretty quick," Decker said, referring to his team's first blemish of the season. "Get over it and move on and let's go win the national championship. Again, it was mentioned about the undefeated thing. It wasn't one of our goals.
"Certainly, it would have been magical to be able to do that. But we get to move on. You've got 30 minutes to get yourself mentally prepared to go in Game Two."
Senior infielder Guy Gogliettino, making his first tournament appearance in a pinch-hitting role, was credited with drawing the game-ending, two-out walk, capping a 12-pitch at-bat that at one point saw him foul of six consecutive 2-2 pitches.
However, it may have been the eyes of home plate umpire Todd Olinger that helped set up Gogliettino's heroics.
Bantams center fielder Matt Sullivan preceded Gogliettino and drew the walk that plated the tying run. Blue Jays hurler Matt Wiegand worked the count full and delivered a pay-off pitch that appeared to graze the inside corner, an offering so close it had players spilling out of the Johns Hopkins dugout thinking they had just won the championship on a strikeout.
"He called it a ball," said a somber Blue Jays senior catcher Tony Margve, who scored on a sacrifice fly in the ninth to put his team ahead by a run. "There's nothing we can do about it. It shouldn't have come down to that. We can't change that now."
Added Johns Hopkins coach Bob Babb: "I don't think any of our players think in their minds we're not the best team. I'm sure Trinity's players think the same. But I'm sure all of our players think we could have been national champions and came literally millimeters away from being national champions.
"That's a tough way to end. But on the flip side, it's a little bit of a consolation, too."
A very special consolation is just how Trinity players and coaches viewed their championship, especially with so much being said about their quest at accomplishing the undefeated season and how the day's events unfolded.
The outcome in game one was decided in an unconventional manner, as well, with Johns Hopkins scoring what proved to be the winning run on a wild pitch in the top of the ninth.
That allowed the Blue Jays (42-8) to become the first team since the tournament initiated its current format in 2005 to force the club that emerged from the winner's bracket and didn't play on Monday into a second championship contest.
But it didn't deter the Bantams.
"Obviously we were disappointed," Trinity junior catcher Sean Killeen said of missing out on a 45-0 season. "We would have loved to just go one and win the national championship. It just didn't work that way.
"Johns Hopkins is a great team. They battled, and they ended up on top in the first game. … I never for once thought this team would just lay down, that it was over after the first loss."
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Jason Lunz wrote: > ganesh.venkatesan@xxxxxxxxx said: > > + This sets the InterruptThrottleRate to 3000 interrupts/sec for > > the > > + first, second, and third instances of the driver. The range of > > 2000 to > > + 3000 interrupts per second works on a majority of systems and is > > a > > + good starting point, but the optimal value will be > > platform-specific. > > + If CPU utilization is not a concern, use RX_POLLING (NAPI) and > > default > > + driver settings. > > I don't understand this bit. Isn't the point of NAPI to disable rx > interrupts entirely, and only gather as many frames from the driver as > CPU time permits? That's supposed to limit network-rx CPU usage, not > increase it as the above paragraph implies. In my experience (on Altix systems, so that experience may be somewhat atypical), NAPI results in few (2-7) packets processed per interrupt, so the interrupt rate (and CPU utilization) can be very high. Interrupt coalescence is much better in both of these respects. -- Arthur
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Estee Lauder Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign was started in 1992 by Mrs. Evelyn H. Lauder when breast cancer was only spoken about in whispers. Now, after twenty years of breast cancer awareness, the BCA Campaign is loudly and proudly spreading its lifesaving awareness message in over seventy countries. The BCA Campaign promotes breast health and tirelessly works to raise funds for research for a cure. For 2012, the theme for the Campaign is Courage. Believe in a world without breast cancer.
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Elizabeth Hurley sports her new lip gloss called Pink Innocence from Estee Lauder which you can also get, in support of breast cancer awareness.
Elizabeth Hurley is a model and actress from England. She got her first modeling job with Estee lauder, a cosmetics company that she has now been with for over 15 years as a representative and model. Hurley is best known in the acting world for her work in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and Bedazzled. Hurley also owns her own beachwear line.
Introduction by: Meg Zrini
Interview by: Giacinta Pace
Q: What does today [October 1, 2012] mean to you?
Elizabeth: Today is a very significant day. The Estee Lauder Company's Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign has been going for 20 years now. It's our anniversary year and the first time we lit a global building pink was here in 2000. It was the Empire State Building. It's fantastic to be back. We were back again for our tenth anniversary two years ago for the illuminations which also got us into the Guinness book of World Records. I was here with Evelyn Lauder, the founder of the breast cancer research foundation. It means a lot to us to be back here. Thank god for the beautiful day today so we can all be outside and really look at New York [City] at its finest. It's a very significant day for all of us.
Q: Is there one thing that people don't know about breast cancer that they should know?
Elizabeth: We like to continue to tell people that early detection saves lives. We love people to know that if a tumor is found early and it's localized, there's a 90 percent chance of survival. It's so important that woman check their own breasts every month at the same time of the month every month and have a mammogram every year if they're over forty. If they do find something, there's a 9 in 10 chance that you'll survive. If you let it go, if you're scared, which my grandmother was back in the early nineties when she found her lump, she was too scared to tell anyone because she was frightened and she wanted it to go away. Sadly, it doesn't go away, it gets worse. We're really hoping that woman can really understand the importance of early detection.
Q: Anything else you'd like to add?
Elizabeth: We'd like to say that we'd love every woman to go to the Estee Lauder counters and pick up a free pink ribbon. We'd given away more than 122 million free pink ribbons since our inception and we've got a lot more to give away. We'd love people to do that. If they can afford it, we'd love people to buy the Pink Innocence lip gloss that we're selling in my name this year or Evelyn Lauder's lipstick which is called Candy also there to benefit the Breast Cancer Campaign, so there's a lot of things people can do!


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I first read Mary Jo Putney's Shattered Rainbows, the fifth book in her Fallen Angels series, more than fifteen years ago, and I've reread it at least half a dozen times since. I sometimes skip hot scenes in the romances I read because they add little to the story and because I've been reading romance fiction since before the Woodiwiss-initiated revolution and find that there is nothing new in the bed or the garden or the bath or . . . Well, you get the idea.
But one of my exceptions to the skipping rule is the twelve-page "gentle sensuality" scene in Shattered Rainbows which Putney uses, not to titillate readers, but to reveal her characters and advance their relationship.
Michael Kenyon, second son of a duke, first sees Catherine Melbourne, who has been following the drum as daughter and wife all of her life, as she is comforting a dying boy in a field hospital in Salamanca, Spain. Three years later, Napoleon has escaped from Elba, and Michael, the newest member of Wellington's staff, needs a billet in crowded Brussels; he is invited to share the quarters that Catherine Melbourne and her family are already sharing with another cavalry officer and his family and Michael's friend Kenneth Wilding (their story is told in River of Fire).
Catherine and Michael fall in love, but, determined to make honorable choices, they don't acknowledge their love by word or deed. Even when Catherine saves Michael's life, searching for him after Waterloo, nursing him, and risking her own health in a radical medical procedure, they act honorably. After the war, when Catherine needs Michael to pose as her husband, he agrees—reluctantly, but he is understandably angry when he learns that she has kept the death of Colin Melbourne from him. He can only see that Catherine is free; she, however, believes that she is unfit for marriage. Michael, who senses that her problem is sexual, asks her to trust him and assures her that he will stop at a word from her.
She had come to know his body very well when she nursed him, but she had tried to make herself think of him only as a patient. For the first time she allowed herself the pleasure of open admiration. He was beautiful, strong, and well-made, utterly male. . . .
The thought of surrendering herself to that strength chilled her. She turned away and silently got her lotion from the dresser. He examined her face shrewdly as she handed him the bottle. "We have a long way to go, don't we? We'll start with a single small step. How far the journey goes is up to you."
What follows is a lengthy scene, both sensuous and sensual, in which, with tenderness and passion, Michael initiates Catherine into the pleasures of the flesh.
The air was heavy with tropical warmth, the sweet tang of the lotion, and the fragrance of the fresh flowers that were brought in every day. The world narrowed down to touch and scent and heat and the two of them.
Each time I read the scene, I am reminded of lines from Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress":
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.
But Michael, unlike Marvell's speaker, seems unconscious of "Time's winged chariot hurrying near." He leisurely celebrates Catherine's body with his touch and with his words:
We don't have enough words in English. There's nothing stronger than beautiful. And colors—we need more colors. What would you call the shade of these? . . . Tawny rose? Blush gold?
Quoting passages fails to do the scene justice because every word, every revelation shared, every touch is part of the intimacy that these two share. Catherine has been known as Saint Catherine because of her unassailable virtue and her selfless service, but as she acknowledges, it "is easier to be a saint than a woman." Women are vulnerable in ways that saints are not; however, Catherine learns that men can also be vulnerable. Physical and emotional vulnerability is the cost lovers pay; pleasure and freedom are the rewards. Michael and Catherine's story does not end with this scene. Their black moment awaits them, as do dangers to all they hold dear, but in this scene they become mates in the fullest sense of that word: companions, partners, and lovers.
Janga spent decades teaching literature and writing to groups ranging from twelve-year-olds to college students. She is currently a freelance writer, who sometimes writes about romance fiction, and an aspiring writer of contemporary romance, who sometimes thinks of writing an American historical romance. She can be found at her blog Just Janga and tweeting obscure bits about writers as @Janga724.


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Egypt's Islamists mark 100 days of crackdown
CAIRO — Clashes erupted Friday as thousands of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood around Egypt held protests marking the passage of 100 days since the start of a bloody crackdown against them in the aftermath of the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsy. The violence left two dead including a 10-year-old boy.
The marches in multiple districts of Cairo and other cities were commemorating the Aug. 14 storming by security forces on two pro-Morsy protest camps in the capital that killed hundreds of Islamists.
In one of the marches, protesters attempted to enter Rabaah al-Adawiya Square, which was the site of the biggest sit-in camp, in an eastern neighborhood of Cairo. Security forces, who had sealed off the square with barbed wire and armored vehicles, drove the protesters off with volleys of tear gas.
The biggest march in Cairo brought out several thousand protesters.
A 10-year-old boy died when he was hit in the head by birdshot in clashes that broke out between Morsy supporters and opponents in the city of Suez, according to Ahmed el-Ansari, the head of Egypt's emergency services.
El-Ansari said a 21-year-old was killed when he was shot in the chest during clashes in eastern Cairo.


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6 March 2011 Media Statement
High profile Cantabs rally for the community
High profile Cantabrians including several All Blacks are providing messages of support and advice about where to go for help to people affected by the latest Canterbury earthquake.
Health Minister Tony Ryall says, "It's heartening to see some of New Zealand's best known sporting heroes more than willing to lend some words of comfort and support to quake victims in a television, radio and newspaper campaign.
"The whole of New Zealand has seen the resilience of those affected. We know from the previous earthquake that stress and anxiety are a normal reaction.
These ads remind and reassure people that their reactions to this awful event are normal, and reinforce that sensible advice about how to help yourself, family and neighbours.
People are reminded of the Government help line, website and to seek help from their GP if they are not coping.
"A number of non-government organisations are also bringing in extra staff involved in counselling and other support services for Christchurch, as people cope with these trying circumstances."
The high profile Cantabrians in the ads include Richie McCaw, Julie and Dallas Seymour, Craig McMillan, Brad Thorn, Corey Flynn, Kieran Read, Maree Bowden and Alex Wyllie.
Sir Richard Taylor and Buck Shelford will also front the campaign with messages of support on behalf of the rest of New Zealand.
"Our messages are encouraging people to keep talking to family and friends, reminding them about the services that are available, and where they can go to get support."
The six-week campaign is being funded by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Development.
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William King, surgeon to the pesthouse, petitioned for a pension in 1611.
For he that without a just cause goeth into a pesthouse, may thank himself, if he get the plague.
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It was the time of cholera; the boat might have become a pesthouse any moment.
He laughed, danced and sang at the pesthouse—things he was never known to do before.
At this broad hint, the curious crowd reluctantly withdrew, and left the trio alone at the pesthouse threshold.
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CCCC, Mardyke Walk, by the River Lee [Cork] yesterday.
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Meanwhile, in Midleton, Co. Cork…
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CCCC, Mardyke Walk, by the River Lee [Cork] yesterday.
(Thanks Luke Brennan)
Meanwhile, in Midleton, Co. Cork…
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The River Liffey [at O'Connell Bridge, Dublin] this evening.
Oh yes.
There will be flood.
Thanks @CarlowWeather
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Greystones [Co Wicklow] 'Dart station car park the past two mornings….
Iarnród Éireann's Limerick to Ennis line is closed due to flooding for approximately SIX weeks.
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The Limerick/Ennis line has flooded following a significant increase in water levels at Ballycar Lough due to the recent sustained heavy rainfall, and the slow draining nature of the karst landscape in the area. Should the recent rainfall patterns persist, this will extend significantly the duration of the closure of the rail line. Iarnród Éireann had raised the track level by 60 centimetres at Ballycar in 2003 to mitigate against the effects of flooding. However, the current flood levels are at least 50 centimetres over the rail head and rising.
Flooding: Bus transfers between Limerick and Ennis to continue for weeks (Iarnród Éireann)
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Two hours to high tide and water swelling around Millennium Footbridge off Cornmarket St. #corkfloods #stormireland pic.twitter.com/h0WMmmGpkQ
— Tom McCarthy (@PressTMC) February 4, 2014
Two hours to high tide.
More as we get it.
Ross Herlihy writes:
Quick timelapse I shot of the flooding by Wandesford Quay in Cork tonight. Flooding gets going around the 25sec mark…
Cian O'Brien tweetz:
Cork City Hall under siege from flood water [1am]…
Holy Moses.
Somewhere in Cork city.
We stayed up for this?
Now you're talking.
Via Paul B
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Before commencing training in the regular classes you must have attended an introductory session or have at least 6 months prior training at a KMG certified Krav Maga school. See (events) for information on the next introductory session.
Monday night fighting skills class, 6:30pm to 8:00pm located at Woden Campus of The Canberra College on Launceston st, Woden opposite Eddison Park in the Gym which is on the far left of the building as you look at it from the road. See (map). Has a focus on striking & defensive tactics skills as well as various drills to enhance your ability to survive a violent confrontation. Also involving some conditioning drills & exercises carefully controlled to suit the physical ability of the students.
Wednesday night technical class, 6.30 pm to 7.45 pm located at Stromlo High School, Badimara St. Waramanga in the front Gym. See (map). With a focus on technical subjects such as releases from common chokes & holds, defending armed attackers eg. knife threats or attacks, baseball bat, bottle, stone or rocks etc. Also involving drills to enhance these skills.
Both Monday & Wednesday classes deal with multiple attacker situations & dealing with 3rd party problems eg. protecting loved ones or innocent by standers in the street from an attacker. All drills are carefully controlled to ensure safety in training whilst keeping it as realistic as possible.
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The barman asked "Why the big pause".
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The barman asked "Why the big pause".
The bear replied "I don't know, my dad had them as well".
A horse walked into the bar and the barman said...
"Why the long face?"
... oh boy, I hope this thread dies quickly.
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Baby seal walks into a club...
"Who ordered the ice?"
Purser - Titanic.
A man walks into a bar. Ouch.
Okay I know how sensitive everyone is around here so:
A *insert race here* guy with a parrot on his shoulder walks into a bar. The bartender says "cool! where'd you get that?" The parrot said *insert country here*. :eek:
A jump-lead walks into a bar.
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Dyslexic man walks into a bra.
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"Interrupting cow wh..."
Indian bloke walks into a bar and orders a pint.
"2.00" says the barman
The indian drinks it and orders another
"2.20" says the barman
"2..20?!" says the Indian, "I paid 2.00 just now"
"fluctuations" stated the barman
"well f**k you British too!!" replied the Indian
The son came home one day and told stories to his dad about his training in the army.
Son: Well there was this one time we were all on an airplane and we had to jump. I was the last one to do it and I was standing on the edge not being able to. The sargeant told me if I didn't jump, he'd stick his manhood of my a$$.
Dad: So did you jump?
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A truck driver used to amuse himself by running over lawyers he saw walking down the side of the road. Every time he saw a lawyer walking along the road, he swerved to hit him and there would be a loud "THUMP". Then he would swerve back on the road.
One day, as the truck driver was driving along the road he saw a priest hitchhiking. He thought he would do a good deed and pulled the truck over.
"Where are you going, Father?" The truck driver asked.
"I'm going to the church 5 miles down the road", replied the priest.
"No problem, Father! I'll give you a lift. Climb in the truck".
The happy priest climbed into the passenger seat and the truck driver continued down the road. Suddenly, the truck driver saw a lawyer walking down the road.
Instinctively he swerved to hit him. At the last moment he remembered there was a priest in the truck with him, so he swerved back to the road and narrowly missed the lawyer.
Certain he should've missed the lawyer, the truck driver was very surprised and immediately uneasy when he heard a loud "THUMP".
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The Inexpressible Apocalypse
Maybe St. John Did, After All, Write the Final Word
I begin with a cartoon by the great Roz Chast that appeared in The New Yorker some years ago. It bears a headline: "The Four Press Agents of the Apocalypse." I can no longer remember what the first three press agents say, but the words of the fourth I recall perfectly: "It's a-comin', and it's gonna be big."
We Puff or Sneer
It is always painful, I know, to be forced to endure the unpacking of a joke, but please bear with me: this one, I think, is worth unpacking. The idea behind the joke, of course, is that press agents devote their lives to making small things seem big, to blowing things up—"puffing," as the ad-world jargon has it.
"Puff Graham," the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst commanded his subordinates half-a-century ago, once he saw the charisma of the ambitious young evangelist—little imagining that long after people had forgotten Mr. Hearst (save, perhaps, as the model for Orson Welles's Charles Foster Kane), Billy Graham would still be famous. Sometimes what the press agents puff can inflate beyond all expectation, and sometimes, believe it or not, there arise persons or events vaster than our powers of inflation, denigration, or praise.
Some years ago John Updike wrote, "We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-Thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books." I must admit that when I reflect on the Last Judgment, I never wonder what the New York Review of Books would think about it. Presumably they would commission Garry Wills to write a long essay demonstrating how God had, through a combination of administrative mismanagement and mendacity, bungled the whole affair, which in any case should have been left to an ad hoc bipartisan task force overseen by a major activist/intellectual—Hillary Clinton, say.
In any event, if the cartoon mocks our inability to imagine events larger than our powers of puffery, Updike suggests our inability to imagine events beyond our powers of sneering diminution. For Updike, this deficiency of imagination stems from a governing fact of contemporary cultural life: "Our brains," he writes, "are no longer conditioned by reverence and awe." One might extend that remark by saying that our brains are conditioned by irreverence and a resistance to awe.
But there is a more fundamental point to be made than either Chast or Updike indicates: It is, simply, that the Apocalypse cannot be narrated. Apocalypse in the true sense is the end of history, and the end of history is the end of narrative; it is beyond our powers of storytelling because it is beyond story itself. Having said this, I may well have made the only point I am capable of making on this subject. But that is a question that I will return to near the end.
The validity of my claim that the Apocalypse cannot be narrated may only be tested once we are sure what we mean by "apocalypse." It seems to me that, when that term is employed in literary discourse, it is used in two different ways, with different degrees of legitimacy and usefulness. It is used both for stories that depict the end of the world (these are usually secular) and for those (usually Christian) that depict the events leading to the Last Trump. The second will be our main subject.
The End of the World
First, we have depictions (usually uninformed by Christian belief) of the "end of the world," by which is usually meant either the end of humanity or the end of life on this planet. Thus Neville Shute's On the Beach or Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, to take a couple of famous examples. Narrative fiction is the typical, though not the exclusive, venue for such stories. (It is interesting to note that this kind of book is a staple of high-school reading lists.)
But such stories only occasionally deal with the actual arrival of The End. Instead, they tend to show that end narrowly averted, as in Michael Chabon's wonderful novel for young people Summerland, or to show the new and fragmentary human society surviving the wreckage of the old.
The latter sort of story can even offer a kind of American optimism, the myth of Starting Over and Getting It Right. I would not call A Canticle for Leibowitz an optimistic work by any means, but there is the possibility of a certain sober hopefulness in the way it concludes, with human beings leaving this irredeemably broken world to begin anew elsewhere. It offers only the possibility of such hopefulness, though—one is equally free to imagine us doing as much damage to our new world as we did to this, our original habitation.
There are still bleaker visions. Two centuries ago Lord Byron wrote an astonishing poem, "Darkness," that portrays something like the death of the universe:
For a time some creatures manage to survive in this emptiness, but soon enough no life remains:
It is an utterly chilling vision—even in A Canticle for Leibowitz and On the Beach some life remains on the ravaged earth, if not human life—but I would argue that even Byron's depiction of ultimate horror is not truly apocalyptic, for at the heart of apocalypse is (as the word's origin teaches) the idea of revelation, of unveiling. These works describe catastrophes, even what for the human race is the greatest of catastrophes—its annihilation—but in them is no element of disclosure. Nothing is unveiled.
They do not reveal anything to us we do not already know: That we are morally and now technologically capable of destroying ourselves and much of our world is hardly news. Such tales describe not the culmination, the transformation, the apotheosis, or the demonization of history, but simply its trickling into nothingness—history on its worst day. It is quite sad if you happen to be part of the story, just as it is quite sad when a business you work for closes its doors for the last time, but such an ending is not, strictly speaking, significant.
The Last Trump
The second use of the word describes depictions (usually Christian) of the events leading up to the Last Trump: Such stories tend to deal not with the End itself but with dramatic events that point towards it, that indicate its imminent arrival. In these, theological positions have literary consequences, because the way one conceives the nature of the End Times affects the way one tells the story. In particular, as we will see, certain kinds of stories emerge from Protestant dispensationalist thought that do not, or do not easily, consort with Catholic eschatology. And in the limits of these stories we see, I think, the reason apocalypse cannot be narrated.
In this second category would be Michael O'Brien's Father Elijah, a Catholic work, and Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins's dispensationalist Left Behind books. (The last book in the series, Glorious Appearing , however, broke with tradition on this point. The writers actually possessed the chutzpah, if that is the right word, to attempt to depict, in straightforward narration, the absolute end of history and the triumphant return of the Judge and King whose judgments brook no appeal and whose kingdom will have no end. That is more than St. John dared to do.)
Books in this category, while they vary greatly in literary and theological quality, do take the notion of unveiling, disclosure, seriously. We see in them what is distinctive about the Christian apocalyptic vision in the strong sense of the term, the sense associated with St. John's Revelation: that the ultimate Unveiling is so comprehensively shattering that the very history whose meanings are suddenly visible must instantly end.
The history of this world, so the Apostle seems to teach us, cannot bear the weight of its full meaning. The arrival of that meaning in its completeness marks the end of the history itself. But such completeness is not instantaneous: The unveiling occurs either with a slow waxing of revelatory power or else gradually, in stages, according to one's eschatology.
In Michael O'Brien's Father Elijah (the first of a series), the priest of the title tells a friend: "The apocalypse is not melodrama. If it were, most people would wake up and see the danger they are in. That is our real peril. Our own times, no matter how troubled they may be, are our idea of what is real. It is almost impossible to step outside of it in order to see it for what it is." This claim illustrates O'Brien's belief that, as he puts it in the introduction to the novel, "the 'end times' begin with the Incarnation of Christ into the world, and there remains only a last battle through which the Church must pass." Thus the first letter of John: "Little children, it is the last hour."
For O'Brien, while John's Revelation contains elements of prophetic prediction, it is primarily a guide to what now is, to the circumstances in which Christians at this very moment struggle. What is revealed is, above all, the meaning of the spiritual environment we now inhabit. For those closely attentive to the book of Revelation—and, O'Brien suggests, to John Henry Newman's four sermons on the Antichrist, written when he was still an Anglican—there is an imperceptible clarifying of vision, a disclosure that enlightens the spirit as the dawn enlightens the physical landscape.
To Make Us See
I imagine that this passage from Newman's second sermon on the Antichrist was strongly in O'Brien's mind (and in that of his protagonist):
These he described as "acts of true and saving faith." The "one substantial use of the Book of Revelations [sic], and other prophetical parts of Scripture," is
Newman is an interesting figure to invoke in this context. He writes at the outset of these four sermons that, in interpreting Revelation, "I shall follow the exclusive guidance of the ancient Fathers of the Church" and yet he admits soon after that "in this matter [that is, prophecy] there seems to have been no Catholic, no universal, no openly declared traditions; and when they [the Fathers] interpret, they are for the most part giving, and profess to be giving, either their own private opinions, or uncertain traditions."
There were, in fact, at least two major traditions among the Fathers regarding the interpretation of Revelation: one historical, primarily futurist, seeing the book as presenting predictions of coming events; and the other being (by contrast) allegorical and ahistorical, understanding the book to offer always relevant disclosures of the condition of the Church amidst its enemies. (The second was promoted primarily by the Donatist theologian Tyconius and then affirmed and elaborated by, of all people, Augustine.)
Newman strikes the Augustinian note, with its emphasis on how "we are in the place in which the early Christians were." But elsewhere in his four sermons he considers which of Revelation's prophecies have been fulfilled and which remain to be fulfilled. Newman is divided between the futurist and the allegorical teachings of the Fathers.
And so is O'Brien. It is in the historically minded spirit that the pope asks Elijah, "Do you understand that in those days every human being will be put to the test? Each will be asked to render an account of himself? Do you realize how universal this trial will be? How dreadful will be the cost of faithfulness?" But in the novel few are so aware; few have the veil lifted from their eyes; few sense that history may be moving towards its culmination.
Persecution of the Church increases without anyone paying particular attention, in part because the suffering is subtle, cast in the forms of education, therapy, and training; and also in part because so many friends of the Antichrist (witting or unwitting) shape the policies and acts of the Church. The pope is beleaguered even within the Vatican, while the nameless president of an emerging world government carefully builds trust and accrues power. The world will end with a bang rather than a whimper, but most will be quite shocked when the bang happens.
LaHaye's World
But things are very different in the theological and fictional world of LaHaye and Jenkins. By the fourth book in the series, Soul Harvest—which covers a period rather early in the seven years of the Tribulation—the writers are at pains to insist that there can be no uncertainty about the identity of Nicolae Carpathia or his hostility to God and God's people. Their theological mouthpiece, the evangelist Tsion Ben-Judah, writes, "If there are still unbelievers after the third Trumpet Judgment, the fourth should convince everyone. Anyone who resists the warnings of God at that time will likely already have decided to serve the enemy."
If O'Brien's Elijah believes that "it is almost impossible to step outside of [our idea of the world] in order to see it for what it is," LaHaye and Jenkins contend that at a certain point in the career of the Antichrist it will become impossible not to see the way things really are. The line between Christ and Antichrist will be unmistakably drawn; people will need to do no more than decide which side of the line they're on.
And once they decide, it often becomes impossible to rescind that decision, as we see in the series' penultimate novel, Armageddon:
Incidentally, I have no idea what "prophecy" LaHaye and Jenkins are referring to. We are told in Revelation 9 that those who survive the plagues released by the seven trumpets do not repent of their sins, but that offers no warrant for this scene. In any case, this scene reveals that in the world of Left Behind, contra O'Brien, the Apocalypse is melodrama. People do indeed "wake up and see the danger they are in"—but many of them respond to that danger by blaming the Christians for all their misery and siding with the Antichrist.
To borrow Dante's terms, in the Left Behind books the Evil One abandons froda for forza—fraud (deceit) gives way to the raw display of force. In the tenth book, The Remnant, the point is reinforced when the hero thinks, "For most people, doubt was long gone by now . . . there were few skeptics anymore. If someone were not a Christ follower by now, probably he had chosen to oppose God."
It might appear that this picture of the End Times contradicts at least one of St. Paul's statements, since in his second letter to the Thessalonians he writes of "those who are perishing" that "God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false." But in the reading of LaHaye and Jenkins, I infer, the "strong delusion" concerns the outcome of events, not their character.
That is, people will not be deluded into thinking that they are servants and lovers of Christ when they are in fact his enemies, but they will be deluded into believing that Christ can and will be vanquished. Thus, unbelievers in the last days mistake the balance of power in the universe, but do not justify their actions by self-deceiving claims that their cause is Christian or godly or virtuous.
Not a Thriller
The Left Behind books eliminate the element of self-deception as described by Paul and bring the two sides of the fundamental conflict into straightforward and open opposition. When LaHaye and Jenkins do this, and thereby turn their account of the End Times into an utterly conventional thriller, with all the apparatus familiar to readers and viewers of that genre, they are making literary decisions consistent with their theology. If the Last Days are intrinsically melodramatic, then a melodramatic literary genre—with its high suspense, intrigue, games of hide-and-seek, and perfectly differentiated Good Guys and Bad Guys—provides the right way to represent it, at least until the Glorious Appearing, when, presumably, the rules will change.
By contrast, the thriller elements in Father Elijah—disguises, fake identities, spies, electronic surveillance—seem, to me at least, rather at odds with O'Brien's theology. Because of his distinctive talents and experiences, and the role he agrees to play for the pope, Elijah is almost the only person in the world experiencing the onrushing end of history as a thriller. I found it hard, when reading the book, not to keep recalling that in this book the vast majority of the world's faithful Christians haven't the first idea how close they are to the Lord's return.
There is a sense in which O'Brien ought to be writing about them rather than about a figure out of melodrama like Father Elijah. He has said, echoing the sermon from Newman I quoted earlier, that "wanting neat fortune-telling packages about the near future is really in a sense undermining the spirit of vigilance. A great mistake is made by writers when they predict events, or interpret too subjectively the details and personalities of their times." Yet these are just the matters about which his hero is, and must be, obsessively concerned.
Being so concerned with them does not come naturally to Father Elijah, though, the way it does to the Tribulation Force in the Left Behind books, and when both the scene and the tone of the novel shift and Father Elijah finds himself in a place of contemplation and prayer, where the meaning of events is disclosed to him through mystical visions rather than through clandestine meetings in shabby restaurants and secret documents hidden in ravaged houses, one senses that the priest and his creator are both more comfortable, more at home. The eternally relevant aspects of John's Revelation evidently appeal to them more than the predictive ones.
I have given here but a cursory glimpse at these two fictional worlds; but it is enough, I hope, to show that theological positions have literary consequences, that the way O'Brien on the one hand and LaHaye and Jenkins on the other understood eschatology had specific consequences for their narratives, and that Protestant dispensationalist thought produces a different story than does Catholic eschatology.
Elijah's Tension
But I want to return to Father Elijah for a few moments, to consider that book in more detail, because, as I have already suggested, its fictional method stands in a kind of tension with its eschatology. There is no such tension with the Left Behind books: Their narrative world is consistent with their authors' (melodramatic) eschatology, and if you find the latter appealing, you will probably not have much quarrel with the former.
About them I will have little more to say, except this: LaHaye and Jenkins favor a step-by-step interpretation of the End Times derived from their belief that the visions given to Daniel and to St. John appear in strict chronological order, with each vision corresponding to a particular historical event. What this means for their fiction is that, from the very first book, the immediate coming of the Antichrist and the subsequent Tribulation are assured.
In this variety of dispensationalism, once the Rapture occurs, the Cosmic Clock starts ticking, and it will continue to tick (punctuated by a series of events that are utterly unsurprising to all readers of Scripture) until, seven years later, Christ returns in glory. Therefore, throughout the books we get many sentences like this: "They still had nearly five years until the glorious appearing of Christ to set up his thousand-year reign on earth"; "Buck longed for the end of all this and the glorious appearing of Christ. But that was still another three and a half years off"; and "From the commotion down front and from his view of the platform via jumbo screens nearby, it was clear to Mac that Nicolae [Carpathia, the Antichrist] had suffered the massive head wound believers knew was coming."
But in Father Elijah we can never be so sure of anything. All the signs point towards the president of the Federation of European States being the Antichrist, and in one confrontation with Elijah, the president seems to confirm all those suspicions. Yet, even after that dramatic confrontation, O'Brien writes:
To the Desert
As Elijah meditates on these truths, his thoughts give way to a series of visions:
Elijah begins to plead for God to hold back his hand of judgment, just as Abraham pled for God's forbearance towards Sodom and Gomorrah. But though the voice argues with Elijah for a while, in the end it falls silent. And the book concludes without any definitive answer being given to the question of whether this is the end of time, or just another episode in the circling combat of Word and Antiword. Even the name of the hero, intended to remind us of God's promise at the end of Malachi that Elijah will return before "the great and terrible day of the Lord," is not definitive—perhaps he is not that Elijah.
This move might seem rather surprising. But that shift of place and tone I mentioned earlier, which happens about four-fifths of the way through the book, is a great clue. The setting of the novel moves from cosmopolitan Italy to the countryside of Asia Minor around what was once the city of Ephesus. The apparatus of the thriller is suddenly and completely discarded in favor of a picture of desert spirituality; surveillance equipment gives way to fasts, meditations, visions; James Bond yields to St. John of the Cross.
De gustibus non disputandum est, of course, but to my taste this dramatic shift is an aesthetic failure—I sense the building of an escape hatch for an author who has set up a conflict he doesn't know how to resolve. It makes me wonder if it was not a mistake for O'Brien to take up the elements of the thriller in the first place.
Yet the book's change of gears is illuminating in that it brings the book's literary form more into conformity with its author's theology. For if the End Times did indeed begin with the birth of the Messiah, and all that remains is the Last Battle, then there is little point in reading the signs of the times with the kind of scrutiny counseled by dispensationalist theology. In O'Brien's world, to engage in comparative studies of Daniel, Mark 13, First and Second Thessalonians, and John's Revelation with the morning's New York Times is a fruitless activity; one would better serve oneself and God by withdrawing into contemplation, seeking those texts' ever-relevant disclosure of the spiritual structures that have given shape to the world since Bethlehem's manger and will continue to do so until the last sands trickle through history's glass.
The Dimming Earth
Moreover, it could be argued that not only the thriller but even the novel itself is fundamentally inappropriate as a vehicle for conveying this eschatological vision—that, as I said at the beginning, the Apocalypse cannot be narrated. The novel is above all a realistic medium, devoted to representing as faithfully and even minutely as possible the textures and themes of everyday life; yet what Newman counsels, and O'Brien's Elijah exemplifies, is a loss of interest in those very everyday textures and themes, a dimming of the physical eye so that the inner eye can grow sharper, more discerning of spiritual truth. As the hymn has it,
The lifeblood of realistic narrative is "the things of earth," that physical surround that for Newman is but "the covering which lies over the face of the world." Perhaps now, in what we might call "normal history," that covering reliably reveals at least the basic outlines of the way the world truly is; perhaps now, then, we have reason to attend to the details of the created order. But the onset of the Apocalypse suggests, if indeed it does not promise, the collapse of the normal, an ever-growing sense that the covering now obscures the face of the world and must be torn away.
Christian theology has always depended on the distinction between general and special revelation—God's two books, Nature and Scripture—but the last pages of Scripture suggest that the book of Nature will one day be closed, and closed forever. (Thus Revelation 6:14, when the sky rolls up like a scroll.) If the first pages of Scripture describe for us the making of the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night, its last pages tell us that "they will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light."
The transformation of genre that occurs near the end of Father Elijah suggests that this closing of Nature's book will be accomplished gradually—that "the things of earth will grow strangely dim" in preparation for the Second Advent of the one who will enlighten the eternal City. Or, to use Newman's metaphor, the prayerful and discerning Christians will come to realize that the "covering" we call Nature now hides more than it reveals, and must be lifted—and that prayer, fasting, and meditation are the powers that lift it.
In The Last Battle, the conclusion to the Narnia series, C. S. Lewis has Aslan bring the chronicle of Narnia itself to a close. "All the stars were falling," he writes. "Aslan had called them home." Soon thereafter, Aslan commands the Time-giant to "make an end"; the Giant extends his arm and crushes all light from the sun; Peter, the High King, closes and locks the great Door; and Narnia is no more.
The children and their friends live now and always in Aslan's country, and for a few pages—pages that are not, I believe, among the more successful in the stories—Lewis sketches for us what Aslan's country is like. But it can be only a sketch. Aslan utters his famous final words: "The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning." And then the final paragraph:
Say No More
I have spoken of one book closing, yielding forever to another; Lewis writes rather that what we thought was a book, or a even series of books, is but the beginning of another, and an infinite, tale. Lewis is paying a massive debt here, but not primarily to John the Revelator (as the old song calls him) but to Dante the poet. For there are different ways for the world to end—just as, Eliot teaches us in "Little Gidding," there are several places that are the world's end.
For the earthly friends of Aslan who die in a train accident, this world ends and the door into Narnia is forever closed; for Dante, the unveiling of the cosmic hierarchies concludes with a vision of Divine Love which, in a different way, brings his world to an end. He is able to stammer out, fitfully, some fragments of vision, and among his last is that of a book—a codex, not a scroll, and therefore with many freely open pages that are yet bound together:
But while he can tell us that his "heart leaped up in joy" at what was revealed to him, he soon can say no more of it—the "inexpressibility topos," as the great medievalist E. R. Curtius called it, the ritual confession of the powerlessness of words. And then, when he thinks that all has been revealed to him, there is a last burst of enlightenment at which the poet, now utterly overwhelmed, falls silent.
We hear nothing of his return to the world of the living, no reflections on his marvelous journey; instead, we leave him at the world's end, where words are not merely inadequate but rather impossible. If, as we draw closer and closer to the consummation of history or the limits of created being, our standard forms of narrative expression grow increasingly suspect, once those doors have been closed and locked, expression simply and utterly ceases.
In the end (a common phrase, but heavier than usual in this context) Dante may be our best guide to these vexing matters: He knows when to shut up. Generally speaking, we are not aware of anything that is intrinsically, necessarily, beyond our ability to speak of it. Only someone like Wittgenstein, whose mystical temperament was not wholly unlike Dante's, could think to say, "That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence"—and even Wittgenstein has typically been understood to be making, there, a comment on philosophical method, rather than confessing awe in the face of a world that dwarfs the resources of language.
In fact, I believe, Wittgenstein was speaking both of philosophy's limits and the limits of expressive representation; and if we take Wittgenstein as we should, we will not only be shamed before the richness of the daily world, we will recognize the futility, even the frivolity, of trying to tell anyone anything about the world's end. Perhaps, then, Roz Chast has shown us the best we can do: It's a-comin', and it's gonna be big.
"The Inexpressible Apocalypse" is a revised version of Jacobs's address to Touchstone's 2003 conference, "The Time Is Near: The Apocalyptic Imagination in an Age of Anxiety."
Alan Jacobs is Professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois. His books include A Theology of Reading (Westview Press), A Visit to Vanity Fair and Other Moral Essays (Brazos Press), and Shaming the Devil: Essays in Truthtelling (Eerdmans).
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