An adaptation of shadrach mesach and abednego.
The story is the last day before they're sentenced to face the fiery furnace.
Shadrach visits several women, dominates a conversation with his brothers, is strong and tough, in a hetero-normative way.
Mesrach gazes at images of babylons destructions.
Abednego does calculations of the stars, figures out the science of survival.
King Nebuchanezzar is played by the capitalist machinery, no real stage presence. His behalf is represented by a series of old men.
The end of the movie the brothers come together and face the fiery furnace, which is a where they become sacrifices to the gods of American culture. I was thinking they play as a band on a television show. like Ed Sullivan. They have not forgone the anxiety of whether it will go well or not. The fear is that their image is being baked and hardened, they are being branded for the one thing they will be known by.
The happy ending is that they are not torn apart-- they live. And moments of time still feel the same way they always have. Also, their band rips.
What is the connection then, culturally and "schematically" between Abednego's Hebrew name Azariah and voice actor Hank Azaria, of "Simpsons" fame?
ReplyDeleteThe Bible meets the The Suffering Channel, i.e. the Bible \cap (or intersect) the TSC, i.e. the Bible, since the Bible is a subset of the suffering channel. This is the sort of thing I do all week, except with things with far less cultural significance, and far more some other kind of significance that I can't really identify.
I noticed also that Husserl did some work in mathematics. I think that that's pretty neat.