\u201cHey, so I finally finished my book!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCongrats! What\u2019s it about?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEmily Dickinson\u2019s letters.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLike the relationship between her letters and her poems? Or the letters she wrote to her sister-in-law? Or the letters she wrote to people asking weird questions like \u2018Do you think my Verses are alive?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, yeah, no. Actually about the Master<\/i> letters.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAw, neat \u2013 one of the great literary mysteries! So\u2026any new background \u2013 theories \u2013 discoveries \u2013 secret insights?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cActually, that\u2019s not really what the book is about.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHow can you write a book about three incredibly intense and fragmentary literary texts and not<\/i> go into any of that?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOkay, well, actually, I didn\u2019t really write the book so much as I transcribed it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAre you telling me that you transcribed the Master<\/i> letters and tried to turn that text alone into a book under your very own name without including any sort of critical apparatus?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere is so some critical apparatus! I put in facsimiles as well as transcriptions that show the stages each letter went through.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo\u2026then\u2026what you\u2019re saying is that I have to get your book to actually read the letters, but then, if I want any clue at all about their context or significance or, you know, anything else, I have to hit the library again? Dude \u2013 seriously \u2013 you can\u2019t say you\u2019ve written a book about<\/i> something if all you did is reproduce the text. That\u2019s like me claiming that I wrote a whole book about Shakespeare when all I did was transcribe a bad quarto. Cheater.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cHey, so I finally finished my book!\u201d \u201cCongrats! What\u2019s it about?\u201d \u201cEmily Dickinson\u2019s letters.\u201d \u201cLike the relationship between her letters and her poems? Or the letters she wrote to her sister-in-law? Or the letters she wrote to people asking weird questions like \u2018Do you think my Verses are alive?\u2019\u201d \u201cWell, yeah, no. Actually about the… Continue reading In which the English major rants about the Master letters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[731,639],"class_list":["post-8818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8819,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions\/8819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}