{"id":1105,"date":"2010-07-05T05:51:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T12:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2010-07-05T05:51:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T12:51:56","slug":"dog-earing-flauberts-parrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/dog-earing-flauberts-parrot\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog-earing Flaubert&#039;s Parrot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recommendation from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidrowan.com\/\">David <\/a>, I&#8217;m very grateful to have found <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flaubert's_Parrot\">this book<\/a>. Such precise and preciously rich writing. Intellectual truffles.<\/p>\n<p>Page 4: &#8220;Isn&#8217;t the most reliable form of pleasure, Flaubert implies, the pleasure of anticipation? Who needs to burst into fulfilment&#8217;s desolate attic?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Page 36: &#8220;His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out for success, and his duty was therefore to ensure only that he failed in a correct and acceptable fashion&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Page 44: &#8220;Of course, he wrote something like, How do you manage to live with such fog?  By the time a gentleman has recognised a lady as she comes at him out of the fog, it is already too late to raise his hat. I&#8217;m surprised the race doesn&#8217;t die out when such conditions make difficult such courtesies&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Page 71: &#8220;One way of legitimising coincidences, of course, it to call them ironies. That&#8217;s what smart people do. Irony is, after all, the modern mode, a drinking companion for resonance and wit. Who could be against it?  And yet sometimes I wonder if the wittiest, most resonant irony  isn&#8217;t just a well-brushed, well-educated coincidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recommendation from David , I&#8217;m very grateful to have found this book. Such precise and preciously rich writing. Intellectual truffles. Page 4: &#8220;Isn&#8217;t the most reliable form of pleasure, Flaubert implies, the pleasure of anticipation? Who needs to burst into fulfilment&#8217;s desolate attic?&#8221; Page 36: &#8220;His air of failure had nothing desperate about it;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/dog-earing-flauberts-parrot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dog-earing Flaubert&#039;s Parrot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-hP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}