{"id":28216,"date":"2018-01-23T09:28:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T14:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=28216"},"modified":"2018-01-24T12:12:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T17:12:51","slug":"is-dante-for-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/01\/is-dante-for-our-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Dante for Our Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><font size=5>&#8216;Forget your hopes.&#8217;<\/font><br \/> (As quoted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Divine-Comedy\/dp\/B00FPDQ6G4\/ref=nodl_\">modern translation<\/a> by Clive James)<\/center><\/font><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MODULATIONS-verso.620jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28213\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/01\/is-dante-for-our-time.html\/modulations-verso-620jpg\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MODULATIONS-verso.620jpg.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,930\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MODULATIONS-verso.(620jpg)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MODULATIONS-verso.620jpg-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MODULATIONS-verso.620jpg.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MODULATIONS-verso.620jpg.jpg\" alt title=\"'Modulations' \u00a9 by Jan Herman [Cold Turkey Press, 2018]\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MODULATIONS-verso.620jpg.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MODULATIONS-verso.620jpg-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<center><font size=5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/meanings\/abandon-hope-all-ye-who-enter-here.html\">Traditionally:<\/a> &#8220;Abandon all hope ye who enter here.&#8221;<\/center><\/font><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MODULATIONS-recto-620.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28215\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/01\/is-dante-for-our-time.html\/modulations-recto-620\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MODULATIONS-recto-620.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,930\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MODULATIONS-recto (620)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MODULATIONS-recto-620-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MODULATIONS-recto-620.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MODULATIONS-recto-620.jpg\" alt title=\"[Cold Turkey Press, 2018]\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MODULATIONS-recto-620.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MODULATIONS-recto-620-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=5>Take your choice. One or both may help.<\/font><\/center><br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SPGIGJncNyk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9zVQk0YviAA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For those with the ears and minds to hear them, the notes of pianos are full of ghosts.  Each piano hammer and string is different, as is every tuning and every attack and damper movement.  A world of unique overtones and interferences rise out of each note.  Each one howls and shimmers and cries in a different way, further amplified by the uniqueness of every sound board. And those ghostly keyboard howls have a dialog with the acoustic ghosts that exist in every room. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osborne-conant.org\/Aletheia-English.htm#howls\">&#8212; WILLIAM OSBORNE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Forget your hopes.&#8217; (As quoted in a modern translation by Clive James) Traditionally: &#8220;Abandon all hope ye who enter here.&#8221; Take your choice. One or both may help. For those with the ears and minds to hear them, the notes of pianos are full of ghosts. Each piano hammer and string is different, as is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-literature","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MODULATIONS-recto-620.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-7l6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28216"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28262,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28216\/revisions\/28262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}