{"id":238,"date":"2005-07-05T17:35:23","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T17:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2005\/07\/05\/the-pale-fire-deathmarch-week-6\/"},"modified":"2005-07-05T17:35:23","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T17:35:23","slug":"the-pale-fire-deathmarch-week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2005\/07\/05\/the-pale-fire-deathmarch-week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pale Fire Deathmarch, Week 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pale Fire Peoples!<br \/>\nJust finished PF this very morning. Enjoyed the close very much &#8212; it felt like a soft and very satisfying landing. Looks like many of the folks (at least the commenting folks) on the &#8216;march appear to be in the &#8220;he&#8217;s a nut&#8221; camp. But me, I didn&#8217;t feel like VN was committing 100% either way. It felt to me like at least three stories kept in focus at the same time &#8212; the story within the poem, the story of Charles the eccentric ex-King, and the inferred story of Charles the looped stalker. I&#8217;d been braced for some sort of neat &#8220;it was all a dream&#8221; ending and this more open-ended close was a bit of a relief. Or mebbe that&#8217;s <i>my<\/i> delusion \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nEither way, I&#8217;m glad I read this one. As with GR, it just felt good on the brain to be reading this ecstatic (to swipe Updike&#8217;s word from the back cover) prose in small, savoured doses.<br \/>\n<b>Next week:<\/b> This is the thread for closing thoughts on the book itself. Next week, by popular demand, we&#8217;ll add a thread for folks what want to re-read the poem, intro, and foreword, and throw any other external sources into the stew.<br \/>\nThanks all,<br \/>\n-CV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pale Fire Peoples! Just finished PF this very morning. Enjoyed the close very much &#8212; it felt like a soft and very satisfying landing. Looks like many of the folks (at least the commenting folks) on the &#8216;march appear to be in the &#8220;he&#8217;s a nut&#8221; camp. But me, I didn&#8217;t feel like VN was [&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-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archiveddms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}