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$\"\"$ <\/a>T<\/span>hough Orthodox and Catholic Christians may disagree on Tradition, at least they appreciate and, to the best of their ability, understand and adhere to it. Our Protestant brethren? Not so much.<\/em><\/p>\n

The following passage, from Umberto Eco\u2019s \u201cThe Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana,\u201d is from the main character who is suffering amnesia. I think it also speaks, in a way, to Tradition:<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday evening \u2026 in the hospital, I was bored, and I started humming a tune to myself. It was automatic, like brushing my teeth \u2026 I tried to fugure out how I knew it. I started to sing it again, but once I began thinking about it, the song no longer came of its own accord, and I stopped on a single note. I held it a long time, at least five seconds, as if it were an alarm or a dirge. I no longer knew how to go forward, and I didn\u2019t know how to go forward because I had lost what came before. That\u2019s it, that\u2019s how I am. I\u2019m holding a long note, like a stuck record, and since I can\u2019t remember the opening notes, I can\u2019t finish the song. I wonder what it is I\u2019m supposed to finish, and why. While I was singing without thinking I was actually myself for the duration of the memory, which in that case was what you might call throat memory, with the befores and afters linked together, and I was the complete song, and every time I began it my vocal cords were already preparing to vibrate the sounds to come. I think a pianist works that way, too: even as he plays one note he\u2019s readying his fingers to strike the keys that come next. Without the first notes, we won\u2019t make it to the last ones, we\u2019ll come untuned, and we\u2019ll succeed in getting from start to finish only if we somehow contain the entire song within us. I don\u2019t know the whole song anymore. I\u2019m like \u2026 a burning log. The log burns, but it has no awareness of having once been a part of a whole trunk nor any way to find out that it has been, or to know if it caught fire. So it burns up and that\u2019s all. I\u2019m living in pure loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Giambattista \u201cYambo\u201d Bodoni in Umberto Eco\u2019s \u201cThe Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana,\u201d pp.36-37.<\/em><\/p>\n

Eco\u2019s been featured here before<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"