{"id":26628,"date":"2013-05-17T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irmadriessen.nl\/log\/?p=26628"},"modified":"2013-05-17T01:00:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T23:00:27","slug":"excerpt-from-italo-calvino-letters-1941-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/excerpt-from-italo-calvino-letters-1941-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"excerpt from excerpt from italo calvino: letters, 1941-1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plus I\u2019ve got to write articles which really kills me. They want articles all over the place and I write them because it takes half an hour to write an article. To <em>write<\/em> an article not to <em>do<\/em> an article. To do an article you have to read books, find ideas, roll up your sleeves. In addition I\u2019m the kind of guy who goes from the maximum of superficiality to the maximum of fussiness in a trice. For instance, I want to cite a certain name in a particular sentence in a particular article. Let\u2019s say: Chesterton. Because it sounds good at that point. Chesterton and an adjective. \u201cOlympian like Chesterton.\u201d Or \u201ctormented like Chesterton.\u201d But I\u2019ve never read a line of Chesterton: I don\u2019t know whether he\u2019s Olympian or tormented, whether he has anything to do with what I\u2019m writing. So what do I do? I roll up my sleeves and start looking until I find Chesterton\u2019s works. And I read them. All Chesterton\u2019s works. And I read them. And everything that\u2019s been written about Chesterton. And I read that too. So I can write in that particular sentence: \u201cOlympian or tormented or cataleptic or schizophrenic \u2026 like Chesterton.\u201d That\u2019s it. Meantime two weeks have gone by for three words. <small>\u2013 posted by the new yorker, newyorker.com<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus I\u2019ve got to write articles which really kills me. They want articles all over the place and I write them because it takes half an hour to write an article. To write an article not to do an article. To do an article you have to read books, find ideas, roll up your sleeves.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/excerpt-from-italo-calvino-letters-1941-1985\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}