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de profundis

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de profundis (Latin) [deɪ prɒˈfʊndɪs]
adv
(Christian Religious Writings / Bible) out of the depths of misery or dejection
[from the first words of Psalm 130]
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What connects: * Epistle to the Ephesians * De Profundis * Don Quixote * Pilgrim's Progress Answer: They were all written in prison (St Paul, Oscar Wilde, Cervantes, John Bunyan).
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The self-laceration lacks the rhetorical bravura of Wilde's De profundis, but the sentiment is uncannily, and tragically, similar.
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Just as the Fool's jingling propels Lear to his sobbing sanity, so does the Fool's piping finale transfigure the Lear/Cordelia memento mori into de profundis music.
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