{"id":297,"date":"2007-09-25T17:54:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T20:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/index.php\/2007\/09\/25\/the-dead-lady-of-clown-town\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T17:54:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T20:54:03","slug":"the-dead-lady-of-clown-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2007\/the-dead-lady-of-clown-town","title":{"rendered":"The Dead Lady of Clown Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

… excerpted from The Rediscovery of Man<\/a>, by Cordwainer Smith:<\/p>\n

… Said little Joan… “I bring you life-with. It’s more than love. Love’s a hard, sad, dirty word, a cold word, an old word. It says too much and it promises too little. I bring you something much bigger than love. If you’re alive, you’re alive. If you’re alive-with, then you know the other life is there too \u2014 both of you, any of you, all of you. Don’t do anything. Don’t grab, don’t clench, don’t possess. Just be<\/em>. That’s the weapon. There’s not a flame or a gun or a poison that can stop it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… excerpted from The Rediscovery of Man, by Cordwainer Smith: … Said little Joan… “I bring you life-with. It’s more than love. Love’s a hard, sad, dirty word, a cold word, an old word. It says too much and it promises too little. I bring you something much bigger than love. If you’re alive, you’re … Continue reading “The Dead Lady of Clown Town”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}