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<\/a>\u201cArt has many mansions,\u201d according to revered art critic Peter Schjeldahl. I turn to his articles first. I\u2019m old school, still love magazines and will indulge in a copy of the New Yorker when I can afford one.<\/p>\n\u201cToday the most compelling tend to the tumbledown.\u201d I ponder \u201ctumbledown,\u201d how it applies. Are we to the point of aching for the past so badly we favour anything vintage or gaudy? I suspect nostalgia.<\/p>\n
Interrupted by a ding. I forgot to turn off Notifications-a comment from a frenemy taking umbrage with a Robert Kroetsch quote I posted: \u201cIn a sense we haven\u2019t got an identity until somebody tells our story. The fiction makes us real.\u201d
\nDF: \u201cSo, Harry Potter is real? Lots of books about him. How about Spiderman?\u201d
\n\u201cYo DF, ask a 10-year-old. Both are excruciatingly real to that crowd.\u201d
\nDF: \u201cHuh?\u201d
\n\u201cNo doubt Kroetch meant \u201creal\u201d figuratively.\u201d
\nDF responds with, \u201cBullshit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Apparently it\u2019s vital to explain my folly, prove his point. Troll. I don\u2019t respond with \u201ctroll. \u201cI may curse like a laid-off oil rig worker but refrain from discord however thought provoking, preferring to employ the Block option. I can live without winning, will happily collect triumph elsewhere. I return to Schjeldahl\u2019s The Medici at the Met to marvel.<\/p>\n
According to Wikipedia the guy is a poet as well. The highest form of literature.<\/em> Explains his facility with language. I highlight resonant phrases: \u201c\u2026virtuosic artifice.\u201d Yes, feigning demands feigning well, going for the gusto. \u201c…ornamenting a milieu of preening style Sexism. DF\u2019s problem I suspect. I dared to eschew \u00a0\u201c\u2026the golden circle of his regard.\u201d Expectations; everybody\u2019s got \u2018em and I\u2019ll never meet his.<\/p>\n Sadly, Peter Schjeldahl died October 21, 2022 and I am only now posting this tribute. I\u2019m grateful for how he enriched my linguistic repertoire, awed and inspired with his wit, insights, nuanced semantics of expression, and made me laugh.<\/p>\n Rest in peace Poet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cArt has many mansions,\u201d according to revered art critic Peter Schjeldahl. I turn to his articles first. I\u2019m old school, still love magazines and will indulge in a copy of the New Yorker when I can afford one. \u201cToday the most compelling tend to the tumbledown.\u201d I ponder \u201ctumbledown,\u201d how it applies. Are we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[472],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12712,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions\/12712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand often freewheeling Eros.\u201d \u201cHelldogs.\u201d \u201cVulgate.\u201d \u201c…accidently burlesque ways.\u201d I would like to employ \u201cburlesque\u201d thusly but these days people associate the term with strippers instead of its true meaning, parody.<\/p>\n