{"id":47631,"date":"2021-08-09T11:07:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=47631"},"modified":"2021-09-08T19:31:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T23:31:05","slug":"bloggers-poets-writers-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2021\/08\/bloggers-poets-writers-beware.html","title":{"rendered":"Bloggers, Poets, Writers . . . <\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


You scribble on any subject that comes to mind.<\/em><\/strong> Words cascade like an avalanche in spring. Try chewing your pencil and staring out the window in despair every so often.”<\/em> \u2014 Wislawa Szymborska<\/strong><\/p><\/font><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘Songe drolatique’ \u00a9 2020 by Gerard Bellaart<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
He called himself <\/strong>\na statistical optimist, <\/strong>\nwhich must be a special <\/strong>\ntwo-legged category, <\/strong>\nnot at all <\/strong>\nlike the rest of us \u2014 <\/strong>\nman or woman \u2014 <\/strong>\nsugared perhaps <\/strong>\nwith private sonnets <\/strong>\nsent to friends, <\/strong>\nthe ones who gave him <\/strong>\nhope, the desperate ones <\/strong>\nhe most admired,  <\/strong>\nwho loved him least. <\/strong>\n\njh<\/strong><\/em>\n\nWith apologies to Paul Krugman, whose phrase \"statistical optimist\" I've taken out of context. And to Wislawa Szymborska, whose words ditto.<\/em><\/font><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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