Prachtig en ontroerend tijdsbeeld. Zeer fraaie beeld van Jos Cleber die zichtbaar intens luistert en geniet met op de achtergrond als schaduw Jules de Corte die speelt en zingt.
Just found this. Another fragment of ..............: The Holy (Fifth) Gospel, according to Jules de Corte (not one of the apostles) As opposed to the other four gospels, the Gospel (“evangelie”) according to de Corte has no certain answers to any questions whatsoever. Everything is a “maybe” (the Dutch “misschien” of this song). It is known that de Corte lost his (Catholic) faith, and not everybody in his immediate surroundings liked it. So what to think when you have to figure it out all for yourself without really knowing anything about anything? Well, evidently, read and recite the Holy Gospel according to Jules de Corte, thousands of songs. The uncertainty and the ignorance preached by the Holy Gospel according to de Corte may well long outlive any and all presumed certainty presently out there. PS For background, see the 1993 interview with Henk Binnendijk (easy to find), three years before de Corte’s death. de Corte is asked: “What do you know now after all these years?” In a world in which everyone seems to know everything, de Corte happily confessed that he knew hardly anything about anything (and yet he had spent more time thinking about it than most everyone else). “Ik geloof dat we niets weten. Dat hoeft ook niet . . . Als we het konden weten, dan zouden we het weten.” Very refreshing, frankly. And indeed, what’s wrong with trying to figure it out for yourself. de Corte mentions that a journalist visiting him had asked him why he is so cynical. I am not at all cynical he thought. Indeed, his poetic expression is more in the tradition of Franc,ois de la Rochefoucauld, whom everyone in Europe read at some point. He would happily tell you why people really go to funerals (psst, I’m not going to tell you because he was right). Rochefoucauld never praised nor criticized the human condition. He tried to make the best of describing what he saw. PPS I was a little annoyed with Binnendijk in the interview. Binnendijk was a believer and member of a group whose aim was to convert people (“Evangelische Omroep”). Nothing wrong with that. But at some point he mentions the “greatest sin against the Lord Jesus Christ.” Was he trying to frighten de Corte? And he tells him that it was a blind person who was instrumental in his conversion (“bekering”). Could you please just cut the crap? As a protestant, though, he was licking his lips when de Corte criticized the Catholic Church as a “machtskerk.”
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Prachtig en ontroerend tijdsbeeld. Zeer fraaie beeld van Jos Cleber die zichtbaar intens luistert en geniet met op de achtergrond als schaduw Jules de Corte die speelt en zingt.
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Just found this. Another fragment of ..............:
The Holy (Fifth) Gospel, according to Jules de Corte (not one of the apostles)
As opposed to the other four gospels, the Gospel (“evangelie”) according to de Corte has no certain answers to any questions whatsoever. Everything is a “maybe” (the Dutch “misschien” of this song).
It is known that de Corte lost his (Catholic) faith, and not everybody in his immediate surroundings liked it.
So what to think when you have to figure it out all for yourself without really knowing anything about anything? Well, evidently, read and recite the Holy Gospel according to Jules de Corte, thousands of songs.
The uncertainty and the ignorance preached by the Holy Gospel according to de Corte may well long outlive any and all presumed certainty presently out there.
PS For background, see the 1993 interview with Henk Binnendijk (easy to find), three years before de Corte’s death. de Corte is asked: “What do you know now after all these years?” In a world in which everyone seems to know everything, de Corte happily confessed that he knew hardly anything about anything (and yet he had spent more time thinking about it than most everyone else). “Ik geloof dat we niets weten. Dat hoeft ook niet . . . Als we het konden weten, dan zouden we het weten.”
Very refreshing, frankly. And indeed, what’s wrong with trying to figure it out for yourself. de Corte mentions that a journalist visiting him had asked him why he is so cynical. I am not at all cynical he thought. Indeed, his poetic expression is more in the tradition of Franc,ois de la Rochefoucauld, whom everyone in Europe read at some point. He would happily tell you why people really go to funerals (psst, I’m not going to tell you because he was right). Rochefoucauld never praised nor criticized the human condition. He tried to make the best of describing what he saw.
PPS I was a little annoyed with Binnendijk in the interview. Binnendijk was a believer and member of a group whose aim was to convert people (“Evangelische Omroep”). Nothing wrong with that. But at some point he mentions the “greatest sin against the Lord Jesus Christ.” Was he trying to frighten de Corte? And he tells him that it was a blind person who was instrumental in his conversion (“bekering”). Could you please just cut the crap? As a protestant, though, he was licking his lips when de Corte criticized the Catholic Church as a “machtskerk.”