Christmas approached with the ice still holding firm; Stenhouse allowed the crew to prepare a feast, but noted in his journal: "I wish to God the blasted festivities were over we are hogging in to the best while the poor beggars at Cape Evans have little or nothing!" A few days later the New Year was celebrated with an improvised band leading choruses of "Rule, Britannia" and "God Save the King".
Only, it's not a joke at all – the people here really do find a direct path to God through blasting euro-house and watching seizure-inducing light shows, to the point where a lot of people at the service I attended were openly crying and lifting their hands up in the air. .
The Na Nachs are a lot like your everyday orthodox Jews, except they believe serving God involves blasting trance music, dancing on top of vans, painting their mantra on walls, and driving party buses around town spreading good times to Jews and gentiles alike.
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At least that long ago, Stone Creek Furniture stopped blasting "God Bless America" endlessly from speakers outside the shop.
"God, I had a blast," she said.
This time it was the Kiwi pair standing on the second podium step listening to God Save The Queen blast out on the beach at Marina da Glória.
Instead he hailed the birth of the atomic age, likening the Trinity blast to God declaring, "Let there be light".
Medieval commentators suggest that the blasts acclaim God as ruler of the universe, recall the divine revelation at Sinai, and call for spiritual reawakening and repentance.
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