{"id":1440,"date":"2020-05-10T19:01:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T02:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2020\/05\/10\/the-blind-assassin-meander-week-six\/"},"modified":"2020-05-10T19:01:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T02:01:40","slug":"the-blind-assassin-meander-week-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2020\/05\/10\/the-blind-assassin-meander-week-six\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blind Assassin Meander: Week Six"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another great thread this week — thanks to all! It’s a real treat, I say, this ongoing conversation. A stately pleasure dome of commentary, if you will. And one I super appreciate. Lately I’ve gotten in the rhythm of doing all my TBA<\/em> reading on Saturdays and Sundays, and it’s just a fantastic of a way to spend a hunkered weekend, sitting on the porch, catching up with MA, Iris, other characters named and nameless, and youse.<\/p>\n

With each section, I’m increasingly enjoying\/appreciating the book, impending badness and all. As Blue F said in the thread, MA has a great sense of when we’re ready for more Iris, more noir, more present tense, more past, more snark at nosey academics, and more alien side plots-within-plots that Itto Ogami is pretty sure are 50\/50 legit.<\/p>\n

I keep marveling at MA\/Iris’ knack for the lethal throwaway line that pulls you forward, including this pair from page 296 (blue):<\/p>\n

“Not much you can do to kill a rock.”<\/em> and “when he was still coming up with reasons for what he thought and did”…<\/p>\n

and of course: “blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.” (288) Yikes.<\/p>\n

And in the continuing saga of our ever-expanding vocabularies, here’s one more for the list: “nacreous” — turns out to have a much lovelier meaning than I expected. And there’s some comfort in that. May all your new words turn out to be lovelier than they first sound.<\/p>\n

Where to from here?<\/strong> Let’s meet up on the other side of a few more weather reports, at the bottom of page 357 (Blue) where “Mr. Griffen’s remarks were roundly applauded.” Which honestly scares the hell out of me.<\/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 7.3 (“Postcards from Europe”) through 8.4 (“The Mail and Empire, 1936”).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another great thread this week — thanks to all! It’s a real treat, I say, this ongoing conversation. A stately pleasure dome of commentary, if you will. And one I super appreciate. Lately I’ve gotten in the rhythm of doing all my TBA reading on Saturdays and Sundays, and it’s just a fantastic of a […]<\/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-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","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=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}