{"id":788,"date":"2009-03-25T22:11:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T22:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2009\/03\/25\/the-brothers-karamazov-deathmarch-week-6\/"},"modified":"2009-03-25T22:11:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T22:11:04","slug":"the-brothers-karamazov-deathmarch-week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2009\/03\/25\/the-brothers-karamazov-deathmarch-week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brothers Karamazov Deathmarch, Week 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href = \"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio?isbn=9780393092141\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"this image is from the norton critical edition of the brothers karamazov\" src=\"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215a\/botherskcover.jpg\" width=\"153\" height=\"128\" border=\"0\" align = \"left\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nWelcome to Week 6, and let me just say: yikes. I&#8217;m talking to you, pages 246-264 in the <a href = \"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/7-9780374528379-1\">Pevear and Volokhonsky translation<\/a>. There are brains made to absorb an endless prose description of a religious poem about faith and free will (and aftermath chit-chat) like the one we experienced this past week. Some of those brains are among us, as evidenced by this week&#8217;s excellent comments section. But I&#8217;ll confess, I have that other kind of brain. To me it all sounded like the same three sentences over and over and over again. And I say: here&#8217;s to all the &#8216;marchers! Because I&#8217;m sure I would have been left by the wayside had it not be for the lure of the trail and the shame of constructing magnets for others whilst having no BKDM magnet to call my own.<br \/>\nFortunately, Smerdyakov was waiting on the far side of this maddening section. Good old broth-making, scurrilous, creepy, super-dooper compelling Smerdyakov. Fyodor&#8217;s beard-behavioral analysis lay just beyond that. And the Brothers Karamazov Cannonball Run was on again&#8230;.<br \/>\n<b>Next Wednesday:<\/b> Let&#8217;s meet up at the end of Part III, Book Seven, Chapter 2, &#8220;because it&#8217;s very opportune for us.&#8221;<br \/>\n<i>(which is to say: please use this Week 4 thread for comments on pages 0-343; aim to finish reading that section and shout out here by end o&#8217; day Tuesday)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Week 6, and let me just say: yikes. I&#8217;m talking to you, pages 246-264 in the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. There are brains made to absorb an endless prose description of a religious poem about faith and free will (and aftermath chit-chat) like the one we experienced this past week. Some of those [&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-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archiveddms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}