Word: sibyl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever call them tattoos," warns an ex-carny roustabout (Rod Steiger) whose entire body is covered with pictures. "They're skin illustrations." The work of a sibyl (Claire Bloom) from some far distant future, the illustrations are animated auguries of tragic destiny...
Domestic and Cosmic. "Consider for instance the small scene just underneath the curve of the ceiling between the Prophet Jeremiah and the Sibyl Persica. This triangular picture shows the family of Salmon, one of the ancestors of Jesus. Here, the child leans upon his mother's knee and watches her cutting cloth with a big pair of shears. The pull of the fabric points your eye to something which is happening near by. Glancing up and to the right, you meet with the image in which God the Creator divides Light from Darkness. You are witnessing the same thing...
...housekeeping, and maintain a kind of brawling, sprawling discipline based on love for each other and fear of the perils outside the old stained-glass door. They are sustained, too, by a mother cult-complete with sepulchral candles and antiphonal responses-in which one sensitive girl plays Sibyl for her siblings, delivering utterances from Mother, "who is always with...
...unapproachable gods. The tangible sibyl closer to hand, is Joan Baez...
...suffered from the Christian God. told him: "Through his curse you live a life with god . . . Perhaps one day he will bless you instead of cursing you. But whatever you may do, your fate will be forever bound up with god, your soul forever filled with god." The sibyl's prophecy is fulfilled in Lagerkvist's new book, in which god finally allows Ahasuerus to die. Like Lagerkvist's other novels, this is written in the prose of parables, plain and simple, pared to the essential scene and angle like a painting by Giotto, held like...