{"id":19601,"date":"2016-08-03T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=19601"},"modified":"2016-07-26T07:27:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T11:27:41","slug":"your-other-life-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/03\/your-other-life-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Other Life, Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I now write, in the caf\u00c3\u00a9s of Paris, The Seamstress and the Wind, as I have proposed, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only to accelerate the process. What process? A process with no name, or form, or content. Or results. If it helps me survive, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only the way some little riddle would have. I think that for a process to be sustained over time there must always be the intrigue of a point out of place. But nothing will be discovered in the end, or at the beginning either, because the decision has already been made: I will never travel again. Suddenly, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in a caf\u00c3\u00a9 in Paris, writing, giving expression to anachronistic decisions made in the very heart of the fear of adventure (in a caf\u00c3\u00a9 in my neighborhood, Flores). A person can come to believe he has another life, in addition to his own, and logically he believes that he has it somewhere else, waiting for him. But you only have to test this theory once to see it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hold. One trip is enough (I made two). There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only one life, and it is in its place. But still, something must have happened. If I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve written, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been so I might interpolate forgetfulness between my life and myself. I was successful there. When a memory appears, it brings nothing with it, only a combination of itself and its negative aftereffects. And the whirlwind. And me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The imagination, this marvelous faculty, does nothing, if left uncontrolled, but lean on memory. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Memory makes things felt, heard and seen rise into the light, a bit the way a bolus of grass rises again in a ruminant. It may be chewed, but it is neither digested nor transformed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Boulez)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

—C\u00c3\u00a9sar Aira, The Seamstress and the Wind<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I now write, in the caf\u00c3\u00a9s of Paris, The Seamstress and the Wind, as I have proposed, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only to accelerate the process. What process? A process with no name, or form, or content. Or results. If it helps me survive, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only the way some little riddle would have. I think that for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2814,2557,2545],"class_list":["post-19601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-disparite-selves","tag-travel","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}