{"id":554,"date":"2010-08-11T13:45:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T17:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2010-08-10T17:51:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T21:51:20","slug":"but-lets-not-grade-the-precipices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/but-lets-not-grade-the-precipices\/","title":{"rendered":"But Let’s Not Grade the Precipices"},"content":{"rendered":"

I knew a young lady of the last “romantic” generation who after some years of an enigmatic passion for a gentleman, whom she might quite easily have married at any moment, invented insuperable obstacles to their union, and ended by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapid river from a high bank, almost a precipice, and so perished, entirely to satisfy her own caprice, and to be like Shakespeare’s Ophelia. Indeed, if this precipice, a chosen and favorite spot of hers, had been less picturesque, if there had been a prosaic flat bank in its place, most likely the suicide would never have taken place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamozov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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