Daily Archives: February 22, 2012
Memento Mori: A Reminder
Hyeronimus Bosch: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things
Memento homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris.
In the last days two events have contributed to remind us of this simplest, most important of realities of our lives. First was Ash Wednesday, the yearly reminder of the crude reality of this earthly existence ( a reality which should be clear enough to most of us but that is, as life is, easily and conveniently forgotten), and second the powerful earthquake in Japan, once again posing the world in front of the caducity of human existence, however sophisticated the technological solution to protect it may be.
It Sounds Better In Latin
Memento homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris.
With my congratulations to the happy few who today had or will have the possibility of being reminded of the sobering truth mentioned above, in the proper language.
Mundabor
