{"id":1171,"date":"2009-09-25T16:36:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T16:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/25\/the-shells-of-thought\/"},"modified":"2009-09-28T15:45:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T15:45:58","slug":"the-shells-of-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/25\/the-shells-of-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"the shells of thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep thinking about something Ezra Pound said.   He was talking about his time in Paris and the &#8216;new art&#8217;.  About Picasso and the ice-block quality.  About planes and patterns and vortexes.   And about how some people ridicule what they don&#8217;t understand because they don&#8217;t know what <em>thought<\/em> is like.  They&#8217;re only familiar with argument and gibe and opinion.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img src='http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ezra-pound.jpg' alt='Ezra Pound' \/><\/center><br \/>\n<center>Ezra Pound<\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>That is to say<\/em> they can only enjoy what they have been brought up to consider enjoyable, or what some essayist has talked about in mellifluous phrases. They think only &#8220;the shells of thought,&#8221; as de Gourmont calls them; the thoughts that have been already thought out by others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jane Smiley said something similar once.  At least it seemed similar to me.  Or maybe it wasn&#8217;t similar at all.  Maybe it just made sense to me.  Whatever&#8230;.isn&#8217;t it brilliant?  <em>The shells of thought. <\/em> And doesn&#8217;t it say so much about so much? <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep thinking about something Ezra Pound said. He was talking about his time in Paris and the &#8216;new art&#8217;. About Picasso and the ice-block quality. About planes and patterns and vortexes. And about how some people ridicule what they don&#8217;t understand because they don&#8217;t know what thought is like. They&#8217;re only familiar with argument<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}