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Beatrice of Montaillou Recants Her Repentance

from Quivering Things by Surprise Flapjacks

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The first priest to undress me was Father Pierre with a grin. He said he had to divest me of all my vestments to confess the sin. Though I was raised to be gentle and ever seek the sublime, he told me to grip the lintel as he paddled my bare behind.

He said, "There's a light in the seams. Oh lord I get so excited -- I don't know what it means, but I would stay with you in Montaillou tonight."

"Manicheism or the masses? Though you are swelling with child, come lay with me in long grasses and dwell with me in the wild. Imprisoned in these cuirasses, the spirit solely endures until it wholly surpasses what no catechism could cure. In all this meaningless matter, what could it matter to smile -- clawing your way up the ladder, coming to grips with the great human pile?"

So he said, such a gleam in the steward's eye as he beckoned to me, "Madam, I do not want to leave your room tonight. No, I want to lay with you in Montaillou tonight."

When I was a child I heard the body of Christ withered long before our time. All the pigeons and the church parishioners, they pecked at something less divine. Lips were stained only with wine -- it left a thirst that no amount of kneeling could contain. I went walking through the rain.

I had my servings and pleasures -- I was a castellan's wife -- but always doled out or measured within an inch of my life till I laid eyes on the vicar, the year I turned forty-two. And though my heart it beat quicker, I said to him, "Lucky you." And when we fled to the country they carried us from our home, before a court of my betters where I was made to atone. Now, all but laden with fetters, bereft of riches, alone, through every stitch in the letters which in this fabric were sewn,
there's a light.

In the seams, oh Lord, I get so excited. I don’t know what it means, but I would say to you in Montaillou tonight: I would never stay with you in Montaillou tonight.

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from Quivering Things, released July 3, 2014

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Surprise Flapjacks Durham, North Carolina

Surprise Flapjacks makes music about communists, existential crises, zombies, and lovesickness (and, of course, zombie lovesickness). The Carrboro and Durham-based five-piece creates melodic, energetic pop awash in sugary hooks and group harmonies, shot through with nervous surrealism, and tempered with submerged melancholy. ... more

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