{"id":44,"date":"2006-02-16T23:25:15","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T04:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=44"},"modified":"2008-05-23T18:32:05","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T22:32:05","slug":"philology-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/02\/16\/philology-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Philology I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soft!<br \/>\nRomeo used it in such a way; we do not.<br \/>\nWe see it on TV to describe toilet paper.<br \/>\nFrankly, I don\u2019t care whether TP is soft or not:<br \/>\nI just want it to keep my finger from penetrating;<br \/>\nI want it to have some traction!<\/p>\n<p>But back to Romeo:<br \/>\nSoft!<br \/>\nIn a moment of hope, of passion;<br \/>\nIn a moment of admiration, adoration,<br \/>\nHe stilled the beating of his heart,<br \/>\nAnd looked at the wondrous apparition<br \/>\nThat was the focus of his life:<br \/>\nYoung, nubile, beauteous Juliet.<br \/>\nNever mind that she was a petulant<br \/>\nShrew who would have run his life;<br \/>\nNever mind that he might just as soon<br \/>\nForget her as he forgot Rosalind:<br \/>\nIn that moment, he looked up at the<br \/>\nRadiance issuing from the window<br \/>\nAnd saw heaven, saw Beauty,<br \/>\nSaw love.<a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a>Soft!<br \/>\nHe said, to himself<br \/>\nTo muster all manner, all control, all method<br \/>\nTo bring himself to his most exalted state.<br \/>\nThere are moments that demand our best:<br \/>\nThe major interview, the proposal,<br \/>\nThe championship, the exam, the speech,<br \/>\nThe first meeting with the parents \u2014<br \/>\nAll these require our best.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a>Soft!<br \/>\nWe should say as we don the suit of lights;<br \/>\nSoft!<br \/>\nWe should say as we prepare to make the big pitch;<br \/>\nSoft!<br \/>\nWe should say as we prepare to be born;<br \/>\nSoft!<br \/>\nWe should say as we prepare to die.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a>It is a word to love, to say to yourself<br \/>\nTo help you acknowledge that this is<br \/>\nWonderful<br \/>\nDelightful<br \/>\nAwefull.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soft! Romeo used it in such a way; we do not. We see it on TV to describe toilet paper. Frankly, I don\u2019t care whether TP is soft or not: I just want it to keep my finger from penetrating; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/02\/16\/philology-i\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,3],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-philology","category-poetry","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}