{"id":66439,"date":"2019-09-30T03:01:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=66439"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:01:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:01:56","slug":"orchids-and-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=66439","title":{"rendered":"Orchids and Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — just passing along what the New Yorker passed my way this last week ]
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The New Yorker<\/strong>‘s regular emails pointing to past stories offered up a pair of very interesting writings this last week:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The first is the piece by Susan Orlean<\/strong> which was later developed into her book, The Orchid Thief<\/a>, and again by Charlie Kaufman<\/strong> into the script for the Spike Jonze<\/strong> film, Adaptation<\/a>. Just the screenplay would be enough to capture my interest, for its inherent ouroboros<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

I’ve written myself into my screenplay.
\nThat’s kind of weird, huh?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But that’s my obsession, far less erotic than orchids, I concede.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

The second is Vladimir Nabokov<\/strong>‘s account of his own obsession, you might call it, with butterflies:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

**<\/p>\n

Here are the pieces — enjoy reading!!:<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

  • Susan Orlean<\/strong>, Orchid Fever<\/a>\n
  • Vladimir Nabokov<\/strong>, Butterflies<\/a>\n

    <\/p>\n

  • Elif Batuman<\/strong>, Vladimir Nabokov, Butterfly Illustrator<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    [ by Charles Cameron — just passing along what the New Yorker passed my way this last week ] . The New Yorker‘s regular emails pointing to past stories offered up a pair of very interesting writings this last week: The first is the piece by Susan Orlean which was later developed into her book, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788,526,1350,67,1983,1172,19,1,1943],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-charles-cameron","category-erotic","category-movies","category-nabokov","category-new-yorker","category-recommended-reading","category-uncategorized","category-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66439","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=66439"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66482,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66439\/revisions\/66482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}