{"id":42546,"date":"2015-01-08T00:13:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T00:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42546"},"modified":"2015-01-08T00:13:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T00:13:06","slug":"paris-pen-and-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42546","title":{"rendered":"Paris: pen and sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; my father was a gunnery officer &#038; I&#8217;m a writer &#8212; sword > word > world? ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>pen and sword<\/strong> issue is fundamentally that of <strong>word and deed<\/strong>, isn&#8217;t it? Only in this case, the &#8220;pen&#8221; is &#8220;pen and paint&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>How Dutch cartoonist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RLOppenheimer\">@RLOppenheimer<\/a> sees <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Charlie_Hebdo_\">@Charlie_Hebdo_<\/a> terrorist attack <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JesuisCharlie?src=hash\">#JesuisCharlie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IamCharlie?src=hash\">#IamCharlie<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/R19p0M7GfN\">pic.twitter.com\/R19p0M7GfN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Victor d&#39;Allant (@dallant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallant\/status\/552859473937580032\">January 7, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Cartoonists stand in solidarity with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CharlieHebdo?src=hash\">#CharlieHebdo<\/a> victims with these powerful images <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Tbg2WDiIHF\">http:\/\/t.co\/Tbg2WDiIHF<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/YxplDkNUy4\">pic.twitter.com\/YxplDkNUy4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mother Jones (@MotherJones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MotherJones\/status\/552897018822406144\">January 7, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CharlieHebdo?src=hash\">#CharlieHebdo<\/a> in the eyes of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CharlieHebdo?src=hash\">#CharlieHebdo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/v195erxsY2\">pic.twitter.com\/v195erxsY2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Zaid Benjamin (@zaidbenjamin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zaidbenjamin\/status\/552807191775043585\">January 7, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and then again:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Weapons of mass creation <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JeSuisCharlie?src=hash\">#JeSuisCharlie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/freedomofexpression?src=hash\">#freedomofexpression<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/OxObQH84U4\">pic.twitter.com\/OxObQH84U4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Martina Leingruber (@leingruber) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leingruber\/status\/552857186620407808\">January 7, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Will we ever get to the bottom of this complex of koans, in which our thoughts are part of the very reality they purport to represent?<\/p>\n<p>You remember <strong>Goethe<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Faust <\/em>wanted to translate <strong>In the beginning was the Word<\/strong> as <strong>In the beginning was the deed<\/strong>? <\/p>\n<p>In the beginning was the..<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li>hush\n<li>\nthought<\/p>\n<li>\nimage<\/p>\n<li>\nword<\/p>\n<li>\ndeed<\/p>\n<li>\nfact<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The relationship between thought and world &#8212; word and world, image and world &#8212; is of utmost importance and, I suspect, far from easily grasped by anything less than battering one&#8217;s head against reality. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; my father was a gunnery officer &#038; I&#8217;m a writer &#8212; sword > word > world? ] . The pen and sword issue is fundamentally that of word and deed, isn&#8217;t it? Only in this case, the &#8220;pen&#8221; is &#8220;pen and paint&#8221;. ** How Dutch cartoonist @RLOppenheimer sees @Charlie_Hebdo_ terrorist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,526,52,705,741,267,691,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-charles-cameron","category-france","category-koan","category-poetry","category-satire","category-symbolism","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42546"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42596,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42546\/revisions\/42596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}