{"id":1460,"date":"2020-05-31T21:10:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T04:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2020\/05\/31\/the-blind-assassin-meander-week-nine\/"},"modified":"2020-05-31T21:10:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T04:10:03","slug":"the-blind-assassin-meander-week-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2020\/05\/31\/the-blind-assassin-meander-week-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blind Assassin Meander, Week Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next up, we meander to the end. It&#8217;s a slightly longer read than most weeks, but I know you and what you&#8217;re capable of. <strong>Spoiler:<\/strong> you are capable of this.<\/p>\n<p>Two things that struck me this last week out of ~a gazillion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For me, the most chilling line so far, with all the vivid language, the impeccable craft, the cutting asides: &#8220;You knew it, because you already know what happened to Laura.&#8221;(Blue, 417)<\/li>\n<li>I wondered how many other folks googled &#8220;The Moving Finger writes, and having writ,&#8221; (Blue, 420) knowing in your heart that why google? because of course (of course!) it would be Coleridge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like many of the thread-folks, I&#8217;m looking forward to this last section and the chance to through to the end (praise to such as KT, hanging in there with the week by week; but no shame to them who raced ahead). <\/p>\n<p>Let metaphorical high-fives be exchanged as you swerve across the finish line to claim your <strong>magnet<\/strong>. And oh yes, the <strong>magnet<\/strong> &#8212; and the grand reveal of same &#8212; all coming next week. <\/p>\n<p>And speaking of next week&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Once more<\/strong> unto the back cover of the book &#8212; whatever your edition, your next stop is &#8220;The Threshold&#8221; &#8212; or as Iris calls it, &#8220;the only place I will be.&#8221; This is the place to call out as you finish and share any final thoughts. For anyone reading the thread on this post, you know, <strong>Abandon hope (to avoid spoilers), all ye who enter here!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Say pally, how\u2019s this work again?<\/strong> Finish on time, comment each week, and stay in the hunt for a free \u201cI Survived The Blind Assassin Meander\u201d magnet. Oh, and in case you were wondering: This is the post for comments on Chapters 12.2 (&#8220;The Blind Assassin: The Be rage Room&#8221;) through the end of TBA&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is also<\/strong> one more chance to add a tune or two to <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/2hwW4Dqxu2t8hA7xrfqO27?si=z1Nt9XX_RdCVMNY6QhnStw\">TBAM playlist<\/a>. I added a melancholy instrumental version of &#8220;Summertime&#8221; this week, the soundtrack in my headphones as I read about the sorrow and anger of Aimee with the dark hair&#8230; a song about comforting your child&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next up, we meander to the end. It&#8217;s a slightly longer read than most weeks, but I know you and what you&#8217;re capable of. Spoiler: you are capable of this. Two things that struck me this last week out of ~a gazillion: For me, the most chilling line so far, with all the vivid language, [&hellip;]<\/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-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","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=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}