{"id":90,"date":"2006-12-26T21:46:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T02:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2006\/12\/26\/faustus\/"},"modified":"2009-07-07T13:10:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T21:10:13","slug":"faustus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2006\/12\/26\/faustus\/","title":{"rendered":"Faustus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"First six words by Ben Lehman.\">\n<p>Do you think he&#8217;ll buy it?<\/p>\n<p><i>Certainly.  In one sense or the other.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Ah.<\/p>\n<p><i>Don&#8217;t get scrupulous now.  It&#8217;s not as if we&#8217;ll do the work ourselves.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>But if he&#8217;s learned enough to understand the offer&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><i>If he walks away, knowing what he knows, he&#8217;ll march himself into a hasty grave.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Elucidate.<\/p>\n<p><i>The mind retains information by contorting itself, but some facts contort it into dangerous patterns.  He&#8217;ll start seeing hidden pieces of the world; soon he won&#8217;t be able to see anything else.  There&#8217;s no return from&#8211;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Look.<\/p>\n<p><i>Oh.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s signing.<\/p>\n<p><i>In blood?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Honestly, we&#8217;ve found tomato juice keeps better.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think he&#8217;ll buy it? Certainly. In one sense or the other. &#8230; Ah. Don&#8217;t get scrupulous now. It&#8217;s not as if we&#8217;ll do the work ourselves. But if he&#8217;s learned enough to understand the offer&#8211; If he walks away, knowing what he knows, he&#8217;ll march himself into a hasty grave. Elucidate. The mind [&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":[1612],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-faustus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2945,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/2945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}