{"id":3440,"date":"2018-11-27T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2018-11-27T10:15:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T15:15:13","slug":"goreyana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3440","title":{"rendered":"Goreyana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two tasty bits from a Book of the Moment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Floating-Worlds-Letters-Edward-Neumeyer\/dp\/0764959476\/\"><b>Floating Worlds: the letters of Edward Gorey &#038; Peter F. Neumeyer<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>yesterday I happened to notice in the mirror that while I have long since grown used to my beard becoming very grey indeed, I was not prepared to discover that my eyebrows are becoming noticeably shaggy. I feel the tomb is just around the corner. And there are all these books I haven&#8217;t read yet, even if I am simultaneously reading at least twenty&#8230; (pg 128)<\/p>\n<p>\nI tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success. (pg 130)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The book brims with such gems.<\/p>\n<p>\nand here&#8217;s a quasi-relevant image to accompany the above:<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/3567969166\/in\/photolist-EuTtLq-GAvUe1-AtNwVh-sG7Gwv-e6yd4k-7VZpjk-6rhLVL-6jxdgX-6jBpvh-DRf9h-Di51G-Di3s4-Di3dv-7Yx5X\" title=\"profile\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2423\/3567969166_6b449f9d4b.jpg\" width=\"463\" height=\"500\" alt=\"profile\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center>The Flickr note  for this one says &#8220;Part of the prep for a ghastly dental procedure, but I was amazed to see the profile of my father and both brothers. Ignore the vacuity in the NW quadrant of the image&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two tasty bits from a Book of the Moment, Floating Worlds: the letters of Edward Gorey &#038; Peter F. Neumeyer: yesterday I happened to notice in the mirror that while I have long since grown used to my beard becoming very grey indeed, I was not prepared to discover that my eyebrows are becoming noticeably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,44,29,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblio","category-family","category-quote","category-thanatos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","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=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3441,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions\/3441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}