( Z) 14 And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle ( AA) and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, ( AB) be patient with everyone. 13 Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Final Instructionsġ2 Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard ( X) among you, who care for you in the Lord ( Y) and who admonish you. ( U) 11 Therefore encourage one another ( V) and build each other up, ( W) just as in fact you are doing. ( T) 10 He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. ( R) 9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath ( S) but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. ( N) 8 But since we belong to the day, ( O) let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, ( P) and the hope of salvation ( Q) as a helmet. ( M) 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. 6 So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, ( K) but let us be awake ( L) and sober. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
( I) 5 You are all children of the light ( J) and children of the day. ( G)Ĥ But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness ( H) so that this day should surprise you like a thief. ( D) 3 While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” ( E) destruction will come on them suddenly, ( F) as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. Good work music.5 Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates ( A) we do not need to write to you, ( B) 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord ( C) will come like a thief in the night. That, and on the ‘Here is What Is’ album, I play Where Will I be? and Duo Glide over and over. It was after Mullen was struggling with the changes that were going on at the time, and you see Mullen mouth the words ‘THANK YOU!’ with a huge grin on his face, and it’s just, I don’t know, a great sense of camaraderie. I also remember seeing Daniel Lanois in ‘From the Sky Down’ - the U2 documentary about making Achtung Baby - and there’s this great moment where he’s eating a banana in the control room (I don’t know why I remember that detail) and he’s watching Larry Mullen playing a drum track and signalling a great thumbs-up in time with what he was bashing out. This one, track #5, titled ‘Beauty’, is a real gem.
I stumbled back across Daniel Lanois’s beautiful album from a while ago - ‘Here is What is’ - and had totally forgotten Brian Eno’s talking parts between songs. You made many of us want to be writers, and as merely one, I can’t thank you enough. Salinger as a character, and Salinger was still alive! Never let them say you didn’t have heart. It’s a hell of a thing to be missed, but even better not gone at all you even wrote J.D. I remember Silas Ermineskin and Frank Fencepost, from the stories you gave us, too. Without looking in the book at all, I remember a sky of robin’s-egg-blue. You taught me a theory of get-colour-down-onto-the-page. Some might say the writing was too lyrical, too strange or overwrought…but forget that, forget that, because to me, you taught me imagery. I remember the crowded carriages, and me, in Iowa in there – a whole damn state, and its cornfields, in a single suburban train. It was a gift and I remember the cold tunnels of the underground railway, and the pressure of wind from Town Hall, and Martin Place. This is the small letter I should have sent you when you were alive, and I was eighteen, reading your glorious masterpiece, Shoeless Joe, on the train, to and from university, in the winter of 1994.
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