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writing/3/terrifying/intro.tex

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 \noindent(Matthew 6:9--13, \cite[10]{dbh-nt}\footnote{I figured I'd spoken too much on the topic of translation already for it to be worth yet another go, but here I am again. You can surely remember my delight in Weinberger's idea of translator as active participant, and yes, this plays as much a role here as it did with my choice of Alter's translation of the Hebrew Bible, but I'm leaning on Hart's translation here for its distinctly modern and universalist take on the New Testament. Hart himself is a staunch universalist, his book \emph{That All Shall Be Saved} neatly lays his reasoning bare, and much of the focus on ineffable love feels applicable to the discussion of the ineffability of love, no matter how secular.})
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+There are two faults within this system of classification. The first is the sheer amount of territory covered by each of the categories. Prayers that fall under \emph{help} may cover requests for deliverance from hardship, requests for plenty, requests for salvation, or even the panicked gaspings toward God that come with terror. \emph{Wow} prayers may come from terror as well, or perhaps beauty\footnote{I'm not sure there's any clearer explanation than that which Rilke provides:
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+\begin{verse}
+Who, though I screamed, would hear me among the ranks \\
+of the angels? And even supposing one of them took me \\
+suddenly to his breast, I would perish within his \\
+overpowering being, for the beautiful is right at the margin \\
+of the terrifying, which we can only just endure. \\
+And we marvel at it so because it holds back in serene disdain \\
+and does not destroy us. Every angel is terrible.
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+\parencite[11]{duino}
+\end{verse}
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+\emph{Ein jeder Engel ist schrecklich}, he writes, and I cannot think of a prayer more powerful than one spoken from the limen of terror and beauty we call awe.}