{"id":1094,"date":"2016-05-23T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2016-05-15T10:17:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T17:17:54","slug":"the-memory-of-masks-by-daniel-ausema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1094","title":{"rendered":"The Memory of Masks  by Daniel Ausema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/450px-Kunsthistorisches_Museum_Vienna_0189.jpg\" alt=\"450px-Kunsthistorisches_Museum_Vienna_0189\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1097\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/450px-Kunsthistorisches_Museum_Vienna_0189.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/450px-Kunsthistorisches_Museum_Vienna_0189-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The mummy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mask speaks<br \/>\ntexts from the dead,<br \/>\nan unknown gospel in each cheekbone<br \/>\na lost play for a forehead<br \/>\nreferenced in antiquity, but<br \/>\nits lines only guessed at until now.<br \/>\nThe layers peel back;<br \/>\ntime peels away. <\/p>\n<p>A laborers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death,<br \/>\nno money for fancy masks so<br \/>\nthe family makes do,<br \/>\nold paper lying around, worthless pages<br \/>\ntoo worn to scrape clean.<br \/>\nThe mourners fold and seal them<br \/>\nlayer by layer into a mask. <\/p>\n<p>Unlayered now by new techniques<br \/>\ndeeper texts emerge:<br \/>\na bill of sale, a priest\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grocery list.<br \/>\nA fragment of a fairy tale<br \/>\nat the very edge of the mask,<br \/>\nthe ancient paper doubles back on itself,<br \/>\ncrafting a tale of doubles and doppelgangers.<br \/>\nIn the center, covering the eyes,<br \/>\na lost night of Scheherazade\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nthe djinn tricked into&#8230;<br \/>\nnot a lamp, not a book,<br \/>\nbut a mask that travels through time,<br \/>\nreveals its words,<br \/>\nbut never quite breaks free. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mummy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mask speaks texts from the dead, an unknown gospel in each cheekbone a lost play for a forehead referenced in antiquity, but its lines only guessed at until now. The layers peel back; time peels away. A laborers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death, no money for fancy masks so the family makes do, old paper lying around, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}