{"id":2195,"date":"2014-01-22T15:56:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T20:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2014-01-22T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T20:56:30","slug":"orfeo-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=2195","title":{"rendered":"Orfeo continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was only two days ago Son John sent me a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/01\/19\/orfeo_artist_or_terrorist_is_there_a_difference\/\">Laura Miller&#8217;s Salon review<\/a> of Richard Powers&#8217; <b>Orfeo: A Novel<\/b> and, intrigued, I got the book via Kindle. Been reading it ever since, underlining passages and even copying a few of them out. The first that got that treatment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;people take up all kinds of hobbies in retirement. They visit the birthplaces of Civil War generals. They practice the euphonium. They learn tai chi or collect Petoskey stones or photograph rock formations in the shape of human faces&#8230;  (Orfeo, page 2 or so)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh huh, I thought. Guilty. And it&#8217;s gone on like that, until I&#8217;m now 2\/3 of the way through the book. <\/p>\n<p>Again and again during this immersive reading I&#8217;ve found myself resorting to Google and other tools to elucidate some point, and I just found myself using Spotify to listen to Steve Reich&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proverb_%28Reich%29\"><i>Proverb<\/i><\/a>, a realization of a Wittgenstein fragment<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No surprise that YouTube has it too:<br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I5lgAUHVFC4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center>(and commentator Roger Brunyate sez: &#8220;Do read (preferably while simultaneously listening) Richard Powers&#8217; sublime description of this piece on pages 245\u2013254 of his new novel ORFEO&#8230;&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>\nWell. Just goes to show, if it needed reiteration, how amazingly interwoven (Ted Nelson would say &#8216;intertwingled&#8217;) stuff is. I do wish that it was easier to snag bits of text from the iPad version of Kindle, to free them from the silo, because there are many others I&#8217;m inclined to stick into my Commonplace books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was only two days ago Son John sent me a link to Laura Miller&#8217;s Salon review of Richard Powers&#8217; Orfeo: A Novel and, intrigued, I got the book via Kindle. Been reading it ever since, underlining passages and even copying a few of them out. The first that got that treatment: &#8230;people take up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entanglement","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}