{"id":1412,"date":"2020-04-26T18:03:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T01:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2020\/04\/26\/the-blind-assassin-meander-week-four\/"},"modified":"2020-04-26T18:03:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T01:03:30","slug":"the-blind-assassin-meander-week-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2020\/04\/26\/the-blind-assassin-meander-week-four\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blind Assassin Meander: Week Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all these genres mashing, it’s the meta-mystery that keeps pulling me through. I’ve started keeping a notebook with dates and events, and I get way too excited when I can do maths and say “Oh, she was 18, that means it’s 1934-ish!”<\/p>\n

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Figure 4: Why would the magnet look like this? I mean, really?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My favorite passage this week was the one The-First-of-Two-Equal-Susan-C’s cited in the comments:<\/p>\n

“How I would like to have them back, those pointless afternoons — the boredom, the aimlessness, the unformed possibilities. And I do have them back, in a way; except now there won\u2019t be much of whatever happens next.\u201d<\/p>\n

I suspect we all sort of have that feeling back of late, wandering in our small-ish circles. And you know, sometimes sitting on the porch, sometimes having a beverage, sometimes reading a book by Margaret Atwood.<\/p>\n

Like others, I’m especially enjoy the way TBA<\/em> folds in on itself — the references you get as you go (“kids reading sci fi and pulp noir? hey now!”) and the ones that make more sense in the rearview mirror.<\/p>\n

My favorite of these so far came on page 157 (blue edition), when Iris snarks in response to a passage from The Rubaiyat,<\/em> that “it was a lot of fuss to make about a picnic.” Which felt like a great jokey alternate title for the book, especially as we hit the crescendo this week…. (enter young Richard! enter young Winifred! who the hell is Alex Thomas?!)<\/p>\n

Meandering tunes:<\/strong> Meanwhile, two more songs from the comments were added to The Blind Assassin Meander Playlist<\/strong><\/a> — keep ’em coming!<\/p>\n

The road just ahead:<\/strong> Let’s meet up at the end of Section V on page 246 (blue edition) where “I didn’t make a wish.”<\/p>\n

Say pally, how’s this work again? <\/strong>Finish on time, comment each week, and stay in the hunt for a free “I Survived The Blind Assassin Meander” magnet. Oh, and in case you were wondering: This is the post for comments on Chapters 5.6 (“Loaf givers”) through 5.12 (“The tango”).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With all these genres mashing, it’s the meta-mystery that keeps pulling me through. I’ve started keeping a notebook with dates and events, and I get way too excited when I can do maths and say “Oh, she was 18, that means it’s 1934-ish!” My favorite passage this week was the one The-First-of-Two-Equal-Susan-C’s cited in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}