Splendor from Darkness (edit title/settings)

William Davey edited the themes of Splendor from Darkness Sunday, March 4, 2012.

• Added a theme: night: At one point Santini asks himself if God had not said, "Let ther be night." (More than 2,700 years ago the Greek poet Hesiod had wondered whether night preceded day, rather than the opposite).
• marked the description of night as not a spoiler
• Added a theme: anxiety: "the night was charged with anxiety". So were the 1930's and 1940's.
• marked the description of anxiety as not a spoiler
• Added a theme: disease: dysentary, pellagra, leprosy
• marked the description of disease as not a spoiler
• Added a theme: homesickness: Montoya, a spanish-american member of the section, remembers his sheep at home moving slowly along a road: "everything moved forward except the dust".
• marked the description of homesickness as not a spoiler
• Added a theme: poverty: A major theme. Yet the book does not extol poverty as good for the soul as do some religious organizations.
• marked the description of poverty as not a spoiler
• Added a theme: hatred: The hatred between Santini and Warniak start as early as Chapter One and concludes at the last chapter. Odon von Horvath said, "With love, a man may reach heaven:with hatred, we shall go farther." But Santini has already reached heaven, and now he goes farther by killing the man responsible for the death of the girl he loved.
• marked the description of hatred as not a spoiler
• Added a theme: ghosts: A British brigadier, Hawkwood, realizes that commanding officers on both sides are really motivated by the ghosts of memories of previously massacred comrades.
• marked the description of ghosts as not a spoiler
• Added a theme: panic
• Added a theme: animals: animals share war as do humans
• marked the description of animals as not a spoiler
• Added a theme: astronomy
• Added a theme: vengence: "Is vengeance mine, saith the Lord"? or is vengeance "rough justice" as Sir Francis Bacon said?
• marked the description of vengence as not a spoiler
• Added a theme: incest: Warniak and his mother. The act doesn't bother him but the recollection does.
• marked the description of incest as not a spoiler
• Added a theme: uncertainty: Accident or chance?
• marked the description of uncertainty as not a spoiler
• Added a theme: surgery: And anesthesia. A complicated spinal anesthetic is used on the battlefield as a moth complicates the surgical drama.
• marked the description of surgery as not a spoiler
• Added a theme: belief: and disbelief. Santini is a reflective agnostic.
• marked the description of belief as not a spoiler
• Added a theme: military law
• Added a theme: military law
• Added a theme: mythology: Are the gods and goddesses of antiquity still with us?
• marked the description of mythology as not a spoiler
• Added a theme: lesbianism
• Added a theme: language
• Added a theme: love
• Added a theme: truth