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De profundis

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De profundis (dā prōfn`dēs) [Lat.,=from the depths], the opening words of Psalm 130, one of the penitential Psalms Psalms or Psalter , book of the Bible, a collection of 150 hymnic pieces. Since the last centuries B.C., this book has been the chief hymnal of Jews, and subsequently, of Christians.
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, in Jerome's Latin version (see Vulgate Vulgate [Lat. Vulgata editio=common edition], most ancient extant version of the whole Christian Bible. Its name derives from a 13th-century reference to it as the "editio vulgata." The official Latin version of the Roman Catholic Church, it was prepared c.A.D.
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); also used as a title for the Psalm.


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What connects: * Epistle to the Ephesians * De Profundis * Don Quixote * Pilgrim's Progress Answer: They were all written in prison (St Paul, Oscar Wilde, Cervantes, John Bunyan).
The self-laceration lacks the rhetorical bravura of Wilde's De profundis, but the sentiment is uncannily, and tragically, similar.
Just as the Fool's jingling propels Lear to his sobbing sanity, so does the Fool's piping finale transfigure the Lear/Cordelia memento mori into de profundis music.
 
 
 
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