I’ve got news, folks. Ministers of Grace: Cherubim & Seraphim is finally with the last proofreader who’ll ever lay eyes upon it. The manuscript will be back in my hot little hands early next week, which means that I’ll be able to announce an official release date for it sometime this month.
On a side note, the following came up in conversation this week…
When I was a highly impressionable German student twenty years ago, I was treated to my first screening of Der Himmel über Berlin/Wings of Desire. Its very essence has stuck with me ever since, to the extent that my initial impressions of it mark a starting point in regards to my fascination with angels in European art and literature.
According to the soundtrack by Jürgen Knieper, this scene is entitled “Die Kathedrale der Bücher,” which literally translates to the Cathedral of Books. It’s evocative of some of Rilke’s musings about angels, providing an answer to the question posed in the first lines of the Duino Elegies:
Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel
Ordnungen?Who, if I cried out, would hear me from the Orders of the Angels?
More to come very soon. Thank you for your patience with me.
♥ EAB