{"id":2543,"date":"2010-05-20T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T00:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2010-05-20T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T00:05:09","slug":"bound-by-goo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/05\/20\/bound-by-goo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bound by goo"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is it about some days – at times stretching into weeks or more – that feels like goo<\/em>? Like being stuck? Mired? Attacked by creeping plaque on the synapses?<\/p>\n

I guess should be a bit too mature to feel in tune with Kate Bush<\/a>‘s more youthful lyrics of yearning and frustration, but her 1982 The Dreaming<\/a> album comes to mind these days, specifically Suspended in Gaffa<\/a> (although I don’t subscribe to the God angle)…<\/p>\n

Suddenly my feet are feet of mud …It all goes slo-mo.<\/em><\/p>\n

I don’t know why I’m crying …Am I suspended in Gaffa?<\/em><\/p>\n

(…)<\/em><\/p>\n

I try to get nearer …But as it gets clearer<\/em><\/p>\n

There’s something appears in the way<\/em><\/p>\n

(…)<\/em><\/p>\n

Am I doing it now? …Can I have it all now?<\/em><\/p>\n

I want it all (…) …I can’t have it all<\/em><\/p>\n

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The photo, above, is one of Igor Mitoraj<\/a>‘s castings of his sculpture, Eros Bound<\/em>. It’s installed in a Yaletown<\/a> plaza at Nelson and Mainland<\/a>. I first approached it from the back, and didn’t immediately make out that it’s a head. On seeing its front, I realized it reminds me of a Salvador Dali painting, but I can’t place it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it’s bound – perfectly expresses how I feel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is it about some days – at times stretching into weeks or more – that feels like goo? Like being stuck? Mired? Attacked by creeping plaque on the synapses? I guess should be a bit too mature to feel in tune with Kate Bush‘s more youthful lyrics of yearning and frustration, but her 1982 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1242],"tags":[15803],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_so","tag-goo"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2554,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}