{"id":5318,"date":"2012-01-14T10:02:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T10:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/?p=5318"},"modified":"2012-01-14T10:27:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T10:27:18","slug":"every-force-evolves-a-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2012\/01\/every-force-evolves-a-form.html","title":{"rendered":"Every force evolves a form."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This bears repeating: I keep coming back to the idea that all creativity is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2010\/03\/a-roundabout-way-of-debating-whether-or-not-to-pay-10-to-see-a-performance-of-monotone-symphony-next-week.html\">an act of distortion<\/a>. I&#8217;ve just been reading Harry Mathews&#8217; epistolary novel <em>The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium<\/em>. One of the story&#8217;s protagonists &#8211; Tro-tsi Twang Panattapam McCaltex, from the former Italian colony of Pan-Nam in Southeast Asia &#8211; writes in her imperfect English a Zen story well-known in her native Pan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcdf.org\/indeterminacy\/s.cgi?n=46\">In the <em>po<\/em> test by whiwhich the 6\u00b0 arch of zen was chose<\/a>, there were poems. One say, &#8220;Dis-like roil dust. The probes remove the dust.&#8221; The &#8220;head wing&#8221; poems are their. It said, &#8220;He &#8216;s the mind. Where, is dust?&#8221; Some lat-er Pan masters: a monk who was stak-ing bats, a young-er monk up to his id in the dust &#8211; &#8220;Are you a-staking-bats?&#8221; &#8220;No. Why?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bears repeating: I keep coming back to the idea that all creativity is an act of distortion. I&#8217;ve just been reading Harry Mathews&#8217; epistolary novel The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium. One of the story&#8217;s protagonists &#8211; Tro-tsi Twang Panattapam McCaltex, from the former Italian colony of Pan-Nam in Southeast Asia &#8211; writes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5318"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5335,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions\/5335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}