{"id":62,"date":"2006-07-10T00:07:17","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T04:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2006\/07\/10\/proscenium\/"},"modified":"2006-07-10T00:07:17","modified_gmt":"2006-07-10T04:07:17","slug":"proscenium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2006\/07\/10\/proscenium\/","title":{"rendered":"proscenium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a66'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier;\">&nbsp; My first fragmentary<br \/>\nrecollection is of being in my dad&#8217;s office and hiding away some secret<br \/>\ninformation in his briefcase. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: courier;\">&nbsp; Then I enter a vast<br \/>\nauditorium (a leit motif of my dreams lately) and take a seat near the<br \/>\nfront. Ahead, on a platform is Professor K., an analytic bigot who<br \/>\ndismissed me from my old school. Here, however, she is acting contrary<br \/>\nto form, imparting mythic wisdom. She asks about the lost continent. I<br \/>\nraise my hand and mention Atlantis but it turns out the allusion is not<br \/>\nto Plato but to another text. Then she tells us about someone, again,<br \/>\nnot the canonical, not Odysseus, who spent years wandering in the<br \/>\nBadlands away from home. She points out on the map terrain where he<br \/>\nwandered, calling attention to the forbidding, arid, mountainous<br \/>\ntopography. Then it is time for a performance. But in this hall, the<br \/>\nperformers occupy the seats rather than the stage. To my right, I<br \/>\nnotice Lind__oo and it seems to me she is singing rather badly. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My first fragmentary recollection is of being in my dad&#8217;s office and hiding away some secret information in his briefcase. &nbsp; Then I enter a vast auditorium (a leit motif of my dreams lately) and take a seat near the front. Ahead, on a platform is Professor K., an analytic bigot who dismissed me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1500],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}