Literary notes:<\/p>\n
Ted Gioia recommends seven novels by Philip K. Dick<\/a>. It’s a good list, though I would have included Martian Timeslip<\/strong><\/em> and added a collection of his short stories.<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n JMSmith seeks to enlarge your vocabulary<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cUnctuously rectitudinous\u201d means \u201ctoo damn nice.\u201d It means what Sam Francis meant when he called the ineffectual gentlemen of American conservatism \u201cbeautiful losers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n *****<\/p>\n Question and answer with Clayton Barnett<\/a>:<\/p>\n Q. If you could have lunch with any deceased writer who would it be, what would you eat and what would you talk about?<\/p>\n A. I would invite Descartes, Locke, Voltaire, and Kant. I would be late as I am calling in a tactical nuclear strike on these morons who pulled the so-called Enlightenment out of their nether-regions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Literary notes: Ted Gioia recommends seven novels by Philip K. Dick. It’s a good list, though I would have included Martian Timeslip and added a collection of his short stories. ***** JMSmith seeks to enlarge your vocabulary: \u201cUnctuously rectitudinous\u201d means \u201ctoo damn nice.\u201d It means what Sam Francis meant when he called the ineffectual gentlemen … Continue reading “Crazy in the right kind of way”<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-words"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Nvy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190318,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190312\/revisions\/190318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}