Seven American Nights procession

Dave Tallman · 18 Aug 2010, 13:53 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:53:56 -0600
Subject: (urth) Seven American Nights procession
Message-ID: <AANLkTimU3kfraYz0mN=JCHhW1NOo+ofq4_Y01HA=Sg4r at mail.gmail.com>

David Stockhoff wrote:
>
> A theater could be closed "for Easter" on a Saturday. That would make it a
> Good Friday procession. And Saturdays are party nights.

You can't have a Good Friday parade on Holy Saturday, I don't think. The
party was on the evening of the day he saw the procession. (It's my theory,
however, that nothing described on the last day is real. I think it was all
forged by the American secret police, who wanted Nadan to disappear.)

Case for Good Friday:
Singing was plaintive?  "ritual pleas for renewal of life."
A crucifix rather than an empty cross? "the dead leader lifted up"

Case against it:
Not done at night (but that might be too dangerous).
Odd theater closing day.

Case for Holy Saturday:
Good party day.

Case against it:
I've never heard of Holy Saturday processions.

Case for Easter Sunday:
Good party day (though maybe not for costume parties).
Processions of this sort are done around the world on Easter Sunday.
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