Sunday, October 07, 2012

Tan largo me lo fiáis.

“The day of settlement is far off yet,” translates the extremely tricky Spanish sentence above.
It is a central issue in the play El Burlador De Sevilla by Tirso de Molina. The main character, Don Juan, can also be found in the guise of Don Giovanni in the Mozart opera, of course.
Don Juan defies God throughout the play with these words, "Tan largo me lo fiáis."
He calculatedly and wrongly assumes that he will be granted the opportunity to repent at the end of his immoral and dissolute life. When the statue of a man he has killed comes to life and drags him off to hell, we have the most dramatic scene in the entire genre of The Spanish Comedia. (FYI. Not Comedy!)
Tirso, a priest, gave the viewers of this play a real spiritual shakeup. Perhaps people today need something even more so!

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