#Parsifal

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The Apparition of the Grail to Percival, Pinckney Marcius-Simons, ca. 1904

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Illustrations from Richard Wagner's Parsifal, or the Legend of the Holy Grail by Willy Pogany (1912)

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Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916), Parsifal, 1892. Lithograph on China paper applied to vellum, image 32.2 x 24.3 cm.; plate 52 x 40 cm. 50 copies printed by Becquet in Paris

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Parsifal: Flower Maiden "Veilchen" Costume. Heinrich Lefler, 1914. From The New York Public Library.

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Parsifal in Quest of the Holy Grail by Ferdinand Leeke

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Willy Pogany. Illustration of Richard Wagner’s "Parsifal".

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Parsifal on the Way to the Grail Castle by Ferdinand Leeke

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Willy Pogany

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Ethel Cain: 'i love feeling bad from time to time' / Roland Barthes: 'Where there is a wound, there is a subject'

Parsifal: The wound I saw bleeding now bleeds in me

Ethel Cain: "i love feeling bad from time to time, i always just fully lean into it. when i was a kid i’d chew holes inside my cheeks while i read at night until they’d bleed and then i’d have horrible sores that would ache for days afterwards, but sometimes i’d bite the sores between my teeth and make them hurt even worse because when i let go, for a moment they wouldn’t hurt at all. i think life as a whole is kind of like that."

Roland Barthes: "Where there is a wound, there is a subject: 'The wound! The wound!' says Parsifal (Richard Wagner), thereby becoming 'himself'; and the deeper the wound, at the body's center (at the 'heart'), the more the subject becomes a subject: for the subject is intimacy ('The wound … is of a frightful intimacy'). Such is love's wound : a radical chasm (at the 'roots' of being) , which cannot be closed, and out of which the subject drains, constituting himself as a subject in this very draining." (Roland Barthes, Fragments of a Lover's Discourse, OC V, 234)

VIDEO: Ethel Cain - Famous Last Words

Ethel Cain

Parsifal (Jonas Kaufmann, The Metropolitan Opera)

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Joseph Urban (1872-1933), 'Titurel's Vision', ''Parsifal'', 1920 Source

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ODILON REDON / "PARSIFAL" / c. 1912 [pastel drawing | 66 x 52 cm.]

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Title Page from Parsifal, or the Legend of the Holy Grail by Willy Pogany (1912)

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Bruce Springsteen, Ethel Cain, Amfortas: Sick and Forced to Cancel. Fans: 'Disclose the Grail and Officiate!'

'You can spend a fucking hour in a bed on stage and it doesn't matter. We want to see you.' (An Ethel Cain fan on Reddit)

This reminded me of that scene in Parsifal:

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After Bruce Springsteen's cancellations two weeks ago (Marseille, Prague, and Milan), it’s now Ethel Cain, who has lost her voice due to illness and has to cancel her concert at Primavera Sound Porto.

On Reddit, a fan asks that Ethel Cain be there anyway, even bedridden, because her presence alone is the grail for the fans:

"Please Hayden (Ethel Cain), at least let us give you the gifts. You can spend a fucking hour in a bed on stage and it doesn't matter. We want to see you."

Following numerous criticisms from other fans reminding that Hayden (Ethel Cain) was not a circus animal to be displayed while she was sick, the fan clarified that her message was partly ironic.

(After Bruce Springsteen's concert was canceled, some fans wished that the E Street Band would play anyway, even if Bruce couldn't perform the vocals.)

This reminded me of that scene in Parsifal: Amfortas no longer has the strength to serve the Grail, but the community urges him because it cannot survive without the Grail: "You must serve. Disclose the Grail and officiate!"

Video: Amfortas and the Knights of the Holy Grail, in Parsifal, by Syberberg

Best wishes for a good recovery to Bruce Springsteen and Ethel Cain.

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Parzival by Fidus