{"id":67241,"date":"2019-09-13T19:25:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T00:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=67241"},"modified":"2019-09-13T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T00:30:11","slug":"literary-notes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/literary-notes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcriterion.com\/issues\/2019\/9\/how-the-great-truth-dawned\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Saul Morson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why is it, Solzhenitsyn asks, that Macbeth, Iago, and other Shakespearean evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses, while Lenin and Stalin did in millions? The answer is that Macbeth and Iago \u201chad no ideology.\u201d Ideology makes the killer and torturer an agent of good, \u201cso that he won\u2019t hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.\u201d Ideology never achieved such power and scale before the twentieth century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yardsaleofthemind.wordpress.com\/2019\/09\/11\/humility-followers-comments-further-thoughts\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Moore<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Up until current times, it would have been scandalous for a woman in a Catholic country to arrange her own marriage in defiance of her father. Romeo &#038; Juliet is a cautionary tale against just such presumption. The nurse and the friar are the villains of the story, overstepping their rightful duties. Until modern times, readers of the play all understood this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>For literature of a different sort, <a href=\"http:\/\/drboli.com\/2019\/09\/01\/devil-king-kun-2\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">see Dr. Boli<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Saul Morson: Why is it, Solzhenitsyn asks, that Macbeth, Iago, and other Shakespearean evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses, while Lenin and Stalin did in millions? The answer is that Macbeth and Iago \u201chad no ideology.\u201d Ideology makes the killer and torturer an agent of good, \u201cso that he won\u2019t hear reproaches and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/literary-notes-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Literary notes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-hux","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67241","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=67241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67244,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67241\/revisions\/67244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}