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Galiet & Galiet
It suffices to turn Josef K’s shame to the noblest of deaths. In his dereliction, under the executioner’s blade, he does not cease to believe in Justice as a supreme ideal: “where is [was] the High Judge he had never seen? Where is [was] the High Court he’d never reached?” (T231). To the end, Josef K he desired to live, and how to live (T231) 3⁄4 with Justice. His last cry for Justice, for the unseen Judge and the High Court is reminiscent of the cry of dereliction of Christ,“Father,father,whyhaveyouabandonedme?”486 ItwasthecryoflongingofJobofJobel,487
“For I know that my Redeemer lives, Though He be the last to arise upon earth! Deep in my skin this has been marked,
And in my very flesh do I see God.
I myself behold Him,
With my own eyes I see Him, not with another’s – My heart is consumed with longing within me!” (Job 19:23-27)
It suffices.
For K our Grecian Hero.
For good men, wild men, grave men shall not go gently into that good night
“Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas488
486 Matt. 27:46.
487 Job of Jobel is Job of the rebellion, not of Yahweh’s restoration.
488 Thomas, Dylan. Collected Poems. 1934-1952. “Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night.” New York: A New Directions Book, 1946. 128
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