{"id":56749,"date":"2017-09-01T17:45:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T17:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56749"},"modified":"2017-09-01T17:47:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T17:47:59","slug":"boustrophedon-reference-plus-orpheus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56749","title":{"rendered":"Boustrophedon reference, plus Orpheus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; party time! &#8212; i have a strange sense of party, oxen invited ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m delighted to note a <strong>Boustrophedon <\/strong>reference. first by a poet, naturally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Distant-Mandate-Poems-Ange-Mlinko\/dp\/0374248214\">Ange Mlinko<\/a>, in her poem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A levitating anvil. Omen of seagull<br \/>\nBlown inland. Ranch gate said riverstyx,<br \/>\nbut it was the woodland that looked lethal:<\/p>\n<p>no place to put down your foot. Bucolics<br \/>\ndemand boustrophedon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; then in the New Yorker cmmentary by <strong>Dan Chiasson<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Art imitates life imitating art: \u201cboustrophedon\u201d describes the path that a plow takes as it moves back and forth in a field, the same serpentine path followed by rivers and by classical manuscripts that alternate between left-right and right-left lines of text. Soon, our contemporary Eurydice in the wrong footwear makes the momentous decision to \u201cshed her red wedge \/ with its Mary Jane band.\u201d Orpheus, who knows how the story ends, steps in to mansplain her error.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Boustrophedon &#8212; plus <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=45583\">Orpheus<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>You remember <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56192\">how obsessed I am with boustrophedon<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Boustrephedon.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Yes indeed, <strong>something to watch out for.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; party time! &#8212; i have a strange sense of party, oxen invited ] . I&#8217;m delighted to note a Boustrophedon reference. first by a poet, naturally, Ange Mlinko, in her poem: A levitating anvil. Omen of seagull Blown inland. Ranch gate said riverstyx, but it was the woodland that looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1538,526,859,1172,741,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boustrophedon","category-charles-cameron","category-form","category-new-yorker","category-poetry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56749","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=56749"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56756,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56749\/revisions\/56756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}