{"id":1419,"date":"2017-05-29T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2017-05-27T14:23:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T21:23:52","slug":"the-mind-eater-by-david-c-kopaska-merkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1419","title":{"rendered":"The Mind Eater by David C Kopaska-Merkel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/640px-Ohne_Titel_by_Wassily_Kandinsky_1923.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/640px-Ohne_Titel_by_Wassily_Kandinsky_1923.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/640px-Ohne_Titel_by_Wassily_Kandinsky_1923-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you are devoured,<br \/>\nyour thoughts and memories are replaced<br \/>\nby a succotash of former victims,<br \/>\nby memories of other meals,<br \/>\nof boat trips you never took,<br \/>\nof hockey games you never saw,<br \/>\nof first love, last love<br \/>\nof betrayal, the doing and receiving of it,<br \/>\nof sights and sounds you&#8217;ve never known,<br \/>\nand other memories:<br \/>\ninitial penetration of the skull,<br \/>\nthe vicarious thrill of consuming another&#8217;s<br \/>\nmost intimate thoughts and perceptions,<br \/>\nof being at once violator and violated.<br \/>\nBut soon the inexorable diminution takes over,<br \/>\nmemory after memory, belief after purpose,<br \/>\nthe you lost as the not-you expands,<br \/>\nuntil you are nothing at all,<br \/>\nsave images and impressions,<br \/>\nremembered by someone else.<\/p>\n<h6><i>Ohne Titel<\/i> by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923, watercolor, pen and ink on paper laid down on board<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you are devoured, your thoughts and memories are replaced by a succotash of former victims, by memories of other meals, of boat trips you never took, of hockey games you never saw, of first love, last love of betrayal, the doing and receiving of it, of sights and sounds you&#8217;ve never known, and other [&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-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","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=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}