{"id":184,"date":"2006-06-09T10:06:28","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T15:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/06\/09\/confessions-of-a-8220philistine8221-in-recovery\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T23:25:49","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T03:25:49","slug":"confessions-of-a-8220philistine8221-in-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/184","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a \u201cphilistine\u201d in recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend <a href=\"http:\/\/gruntledcenter.blogspot.com\/\">Gruntled<\/a> has a couple <a href=\"http:\/\/gruntledcenter.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/washing-out-jewishness-of-squid-and.html\">recent posts<\/a> about one of my favorite movies of the year. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/uj\/2006\/01\/09\">Back in January<\/a>, after I saw &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0367089\/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxxPVNxdWlkfG14PTIwfGxtPTUwMHxodG1sPTE_;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1\">The Squid and the Whale<\/a>,&#8221; I made a personal pledge to avail myself of the great novels. I recently watched a lecture Tom Wolfe gave at Duke on my birthday (indispensable C-SPAN!), and his comments reinforced my conviction. As it turns out, I was already chest deep in Ralph Ellison&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/americanmasters\/database\/ellison_r.html\">Invisible Man<\/a>.&#8221; I finished it last night. The towering, soul-rattling masterpiece has shattered any vestigial reluctance I had for embracing major American fictional works.\n<\/p>\n<p>Now I find myself dealing with a new state of indecision&#8212; What next?\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; from <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Invisible Man<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Gruntled has a couple recent posts about one of my favorite movies of the year. Back in January, after I saw &#8220;The Squid and the Whale,&#8221; I made a personal pledge to avail myself of the great novels. I recently watched a lecture Tom Wolfe gave at Duke on my birthday (indispensable C-SPAN!), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,42,8,22,16,6,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}