{"id":1585,"date":"2020-09-13T20:51:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T03:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2020\/09\/13\/the-midnights-children-meander-week-five\/"},"modified":"2020-09-13T20:51:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T03:51:21","slug":"the-midnights-children-meander-week-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2020\/09\/13\/the-midnights-children-meander-week-five\/","title":{"rendered":"The Midnight’s Children Meander, Week Five"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Week Five, in which we careen in a meandery way toward something approaching the halfway mark!<\/p>\n

Like Amanda<\/strong> in the comments, I was struck by how Saleem’s newfound Umbrella Academy<\/em>-ish (hat tip Guzm\u00e1n<\/strong>) abilities nicely match the experience of reading. And really, what better super power for a narrator?<\/p>\n

We continue to be caught in a vortex of prophecies. Enough that I’ve started noting them in the margins, not to track them, but more to acknowledge them and let them go. <\/p>\n

And thank goodness because this section ended by rolling up what felt like a wheelbarrow of prophecies: “But Evelyn Lilith Burns is coming; the Pioneer Caf\u00e9 is getting painfully close; and–more visually–midnight’s other children … are pressing extremely hard. Soon the cracks will be wide enough for them to escape…”<\/p>\n

And even with all that, super enjoying the journey and equally curious what genre it will turn out we were reading when we get to the end — magically realistic historical fiction? a religious tract that could use some reordering? sci fi….? <\/p>\n

(And here I thought The Blind Assassin<\/a><\/em> was a mashup.) <\/p>\n

Next stop:<\/strong> Let\u2019s meet at the end of the section entitled (look at that!) “At the Pioneer Caf\u00e9” (aka page 254 in the Random House paperback), where “large things [may] be close behind”…<\/p>\n

And this? <\/strong>This is the post for comments on sections 2.5 through 2.7.<\/p>\n

And lastly:<\/strong> \u201cPehlwan\u201d is defined by Collins as hindi for “a wrestler” or “a strongman.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Week Five, in which we careen in a meandery way toward something approaching the halfway mark! Like Amanda in the comments, I was struck by how Saleem’s newfound Umbrella Academy-ish (hat tip Guzm\u00e1n) abilities nicely match the experience of reading. And really, what better super power for a narrator? We continue to be […]<\/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-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","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=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}