{"id":1938,"date":"2010-01-24T18:20:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T01:20:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-19T16:27:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T23:27:46","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/1938\/","title":{"rendered":"Crack&#8217;d Pot Trail &#8211; Three more awesome quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still the very first few pages. I&#8217;ll stop before PS Publishing has to sue me for showing too much of the book :)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s you have an example of VERY unreliable narrator who at the same time expresses the typical narcissism of an artist for his art. I love Erikson&#8217;s original use of language, filled with creativity and love for words.<\/p>\n<p>Only Erikson could write <i>&#8220;a sudden expostulation of amorous possibility&#8221;<\/i>. And in spite of this indulgence in the use of language I admire that everything that is written has still a meaning and it&#8217;s not just there for empty embellishment (Gene Wolfe for example is even more indulgent).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cesspit.net\/misc\/cptquote01.gif\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>If you wonder what exactly IS the art of writing, if it comes so far from plausibility, here&#8217;s the distilled idea, perfectly summarized by our narrator who admits of being unreliable:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cesspit.net\/misc\/cptquote01b.gif\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>And here an example of half-serious remark that still stays in a parodic context (here not shown):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cesspit.net\/misc\/cptquote02.gif\"><\/img><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still the very first few pages. I&#8217;ll stop before PS Publishing has to sue me for showing too much of the book :) Here&#8217;s you have an example of VERY unreliable narrator who at the same time expresses the typical narcissism of an artist for his art. I love Erikson&#8217;s original use of language, filled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33,34],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-malazan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}