{"id":85,"date":"2004-05-27T13:49:14","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T11:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=85"},"modified":"2004-05-27T13:49:14","modified_gmt":"2004-05-27T11:49:14","slug":"allen-ginsbergs-light-early-summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2004\/05\/27\/allen-ginsbergs-light-early-summer-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen Ginsberg&#8217;s Light Early Summer Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now for something almost completely different:<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/levity.com\/digaland\/celestial\/\">reading list for a course in the &#8220;Literary History of the Beat Generation&#8221;<\/a>, taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1977. Links to the actual texts, makes for nice early summer reading.<\/p>\n<p>And yet things <em>do <\/em>connect: On Terra Nova, <a href=\"http:\/\/terranova.blogs.com\/terra_nova\/2004\/05\/good_grief_.html\">Ren Reynolds has posted the question whether one should not discuss grief players<\/a> (types of people) but rather focus on the act of grief playing (types of behavior). <\/p>\n<p>To which I can only reply with Yeats&#8217; poem <a href=\"http:\/\/levity.com\/digaland\/celestial\/yeats\/school.html\">Among the School Children<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><em>O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,<br \/>\nAre you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?<br \/>\nO body swayed to music, O brightening glance,<br \/>\nHow can we know the dancer from the dance? <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now for something almost completely different: The reading list for a course in the &#8220;Literary History of the Beat Generation&#8221;, taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1977. Links to the actual texts, makes for nice early summer reading. And yet things do connect: On Terra Nova, Ren Reynolds has posted the question whether one should not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2004\/05\/27\/allen-ginsbergs-light-early-summer-reading\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Allen Ginsberg&#8217;s Light Early Summer Reading&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}