{"id":355,"date":"2006-10-19T15:27:43","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T15:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2006-10-19T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T15:27:43","slug":"the-old-seapuss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"The Old Seapuss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the very next posting at Savage Minds (just up from my RSS reader) provoked me to printing out for leisured enjoyment Clifford Geertz&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acls.org\/op45geer.htm\">A Life of Learning<\/a> (the Charles Homer Haskins Lecture for 1999). It ends thus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;as either White remarked to Thurber or Thurber remarked to White, the claw of the old seapuss gets us all in the end.<\/p>\n<p>I am, as I imagine you can tell from what I&#8217;ve been saying, and the speed at which I have been saying it, not terribly good at waiting, and I will probably turn out not to handle it at all well. As my friends and co-conspirators age and depart what Stevens called &#8220;this vast inelegance,&#8221; and I, myself, <b>stiffen and grow uncited<\/b>, I shall surely be tempted to intervene and set things right yet once more. But that, doubtless, will prove unavailing, and quite possibly comic. <b>Nothing so ill-befits a scholarly life as the struggle not to leave it<\/b>, and\u2014Frost, this time, not Hopkins\u2014&#8221;no memory of having starred\/can keep the end from being hard.&#8221; But for the moment, I am pleased to have been given this chance to contrive my own fable and plead my own case before the necrologists get at me. No one should take what I have been doing here as anything more than that. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> (thanks to Alex Golub for that one)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the very next posting at Savage Minds (just up from my RSS reader) provoked me to printing out for leisured enjoyment Clifford Geertz&#8217; A Life of Learning (the Charles Homer Haskins Lecture for 1999). It ends thus: &#8230;as either White remarked to Thurber or Thurber remarked to White, the claw of the old seapuss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}