{"id":46419,"date":"2016-10-17T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T00:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=46419"},"modified":"2016-10-16T19:50:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T19:50:48","slug":"76-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/76-transit\/","title":{"rendered":"76. transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Waarom voelt wat Rachel Cusk schrijft zo waar, zo wezenlijk? Ik pluk de vruchten van haar leven, haar mislukte huwelijk, haar eenzaamheid, haar nadenken daarover. &#8216;When people live, they get broken down by experience. I don&#8217;t mean that in a depressive way; I mean, you get less rigid.&#8217;  <\/em> <!--- Het moet ermee te maken hebben dat ze iets meemaakt, daarover nadenkt, dat vormgeeft, en dat ik daarin iets wezenlijks herken. Ze schrijft op wat ik lijk te weten. ---><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It seemed to me that most marriages worked in the same way that stories are said to, through the suspension of disbelief. It wasn&#8217;t, in other words, perfection that sustained them so much as the avoidance of certain realities. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When people freed themselves they usually forced change on everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The first thing people sometimes did with their freedom was to find another version of the thing that had imprisoned them.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The problem with being honest is that you&#8217;re slow to realise that other people can lie.  <!--- It wasn't enough for it to be simply his truth, his point of view. ---><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The humiliation that was involved in maintaining the pretence of normality.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>How often people betrayed themselves by what they noticed in others.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Like love, being understood creates the fear that you will never be understood again.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people spent their lives trying to make things last as a way of avoiding asking themselves whether those things were what they really wanted.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps none of us could ever know what was true and what wasn&#8217;t. And no examination of events, even long afterwards, was entirely stable. <\/p>\n<p><small>Transit, Rachel Cusk<\/small><\/p>\n<p><!--- Point of view, he said, is like those couples who cut the sofa in two when they get divorced: there's no sofa any more, but at least you can call it fair. ---><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waarom voelt wat Rachel Cusk schrijft zo waar, zo wezenlijk? Ik pluk de vruchten van haar leven, haar mislukte huwelijk, haar eenzaamheid, haar nadenken daarover. &#8216;When people live, they get broken down by experience. I don&#8217;t mean that in a depressive way; I mean, you get less rigid.&#8217; [&#8230;] It seemed to me that most<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/76-transit\/\" 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":[693,1714,5],"tags":[1994],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46419"}],"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=46419"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46438,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46419\/revisions\/46438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}