{"id":241,"date":"2004-08-19T04:06:46","date_gmt":"2004-08-19T09:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=241"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:18","slug":"the_liqueur_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/19\/the_liqueur_of\/","title":{"rendered":"The liqueur of the literary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abhi, one of our&nbsp;bloggers, has a great post on the film <em>Before Sunset<\/em> and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/tripathi.blogspot.com\/2004\/08\/movie-review.html\">the absinthe of fiction<\/a>. He just posted it, hasn&#8217;t told me about it or asked me to link it, but it&#8217;s deliciously, deliriously romantic:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><p>Fiction is a heartless charlatan&#8230; You are incapable of a normal relationship because normal is a pale substitution for what already flows in your veins: possibility&#8230; Years later you don&#8217;t fit anymore. You stand out like a heroin addict on a Friday night, wearing long sleeves so no one will notice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>On losing a deep connection:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><p>Is it possible that you can experience a period of time so perfect, so idealized, that it stains your soul with a color that nothing else can ever match? If so, aren&#8217;t you screwed for the rest of your days?&#8230; [A]ll the things that I spend the majority of my Time doing, are really motivated by one thing. Finding a color to match the stain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<p>On <em>Before Sunrise,<\/em> which still plays pied piper to the romantic:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><p>I was listening to conversations I had already had with people in my own life, or had debated in my head. Here they were laid out naked on the screen, stitched together in arrangements that I had failed to consider&#8230;&nbsp;I would have done all the same things, said all the same words.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tripathi.blogspot.com\/2004\/08\/movie-review.html\">Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abhi, one of our&nbsp;bloggers, has a great post on the film Before Sunset and&nbsp;the absinthe of fiction. He just posted it, hasn&#8217;t told me about it or asked me to link it, but it&#8217;s deliciously, deliriously romantic: Fiction is a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/19\/the_liqueur_of\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}