{"id":224,"date":"2005-06-07T07:41:46","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T07:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2005\/06\/07\/the-palefire-deathmarch-week-2\/"},"modified":"2005-06-07T07:41:46","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T07:41:46","slug":"the-palefire-deathmarch-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2005\/06\/07\/the-palefire-deathmarch-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Palefire Deathmarch, Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pale Fire Peoples!<br \/>\nLooks like we&#8217;re off to an excellent start. Lotsa folks on the march, with fully 20 posts so far on <a href = \"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215a\/swath\/2005\/05\/31\/the_palefire_deathmarch_week_1.html#comments\"><b>last week&#8217;s thread,<\/b><\/a> including an excellent bit o&#8217; background on the Zemlya of it all, filed just last night by so-called &#8220;Cort.&#8221; Good stuff!<br \/>\nThis week is a bit of a paradox. We&#8217;ve now read the poem, so this would be an appropriate week for commentary on the poem before we read the, er, commmentary. On the poem. It&#8217;s sorta like a thin crack into which our world may whisper out. So, you know, stay frosty out there.<br \/>\nMe, I was surprised by how flat-out funny the foreword was &#8212; with occasional fore-shades of my beloved &#8220;Cruel Shoes&#8221; &#8212; and then again at how sad the poem sometimes dips, especially Canto 2, as Other Dan noted in last week&#8217;s thread. It&#8217;s a regular Pale Fire Emotional Death Roller Coaster March is what it is.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;d you think?<br \/>\n<b>Next week:<\/b> Let&#8217;s dive into to the madness of King Kinbote and then meet up at page 105 in the Everyman&#8217;s Library, which is to say, the end of the comentary on Lines 130, in other words somewheres round about a passing reference to &#8220;the interesting note to Line 149.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pale Fire Peoples! Looks like we&#8217;re off to an excellent start. Lotsa folks on the march, with fully 20 posts so far on last week&#8217;s thread, including an excellent bit o&#8217; background on the Zemlya of it all, filed just last night by so-called &#8220;Cort.&#8221; Good stuff! This week is a bit of a paradox. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archiveddms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","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=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}