he<\/em> didn’t take much care of his body (every photo showed him with a cigarette hanging from his bottom lip, and he died of lung cancer, so my automatic judgment motors whirred into action pretty quick at that). <\/p>\n<\/p>\nMy other impression is that about 70% of the narrative could have been cut out and no information would have been lost. (I kept thinking, “Yeah, I get it.”) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I’m having that thought a lot lately, that most of what’s said could be left unsaid. That’s a dangerous line of thinking for a copywriter, and it’s also keeping me pretty muzzled as an artist. Either life is so grand that I feel it’s beyond capturing (cf: today’s great waves), or there doesn’t seem to be a point in trying. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
As I typed that, though, I was struck by the notion of sharing<\/em>. I do get a lot of pleasure and insight from other people sharing their perceptions and ruminations about life.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonight while I ate my dinner (bad timing), I watched a documentary about an English taxi driver who allowed a team of Egyptologists, in tandem with forensics experts, to mummify him when he died. The program was fascinating, of course, because it took a lot of time showing a dead body — that great taboo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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