{"id":679,"date":"2011-05-27T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:06:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T09:06:27","slug":"anything-of-genuine-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/27\/anything-of-genuine-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Anything of Genuine Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; my Lolita remarked:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, what&#8217;s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own&#8221;; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling&#8217;s mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile clich\u00c3\u00a9s, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gate&mdash;dim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions; for I often noticed that living as we did, she and I, in a world of total evil, we would become strangely embarrassed whenever I tried to discuss something she and an older friend, she and a parent, she and a real healthy sweetheart, I and Annabel, Lolita and a sublime, purified, analyzed, deified Harold Haze, might have discussed&mdash;an abstract idea, a painting, stippled Hopkins or shorn Baudelaire, God or Shakespeare, anything of genuine kind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vladimir Nabokov, <em>Lolita<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; my Lolita remarked: &#8220;You know, what&#8217;s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own&#8221;; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling&#8217;s mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile clich\u00c3\u00a9s, there was in [&hellip;]<\/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":[570,569],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-limits-of-conversation","tag-sad-and-creepy-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->