{"id":7451,"date":"2015-01-10T17:57:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T17:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/10\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-two-fortuitous-finds\/"},"modified":"2015-01-10T17:57:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T17:57:38","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-two-fortuitous-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/10\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-two-fortuitous-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Two Fortuitous Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d0bcda8f970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Llewyn davis and cat\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d0bcda8f970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d0bcda8f970c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Llewyn davis and cat\" \/><\/a>After a long and leisurely breakfast this morning with Peter Lupu, Mike Valle, and Richard Klaus, I stopped by Bookman&#39;s and got lucky.&#0160; I found a used copy of Milton Steinberg&#39;s 1939 novel, <em>As a Driven Leaf<\/em>.&#0160; The title is from <em>Job<\/em> 13: 24-25: &quot;Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face. . . Wilt thou harass a driven leaf?&quot; I learned about this novel from Joseph Epstein&#39;s recent WSJ piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/balancing-faith-and-reason-on-milton-steinbergs-as-a-driven-leaf-1420251623\" target=\"_self\">Balancing Faith and Reason<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">And then I got lucky in the CD aisle, stumbling upon the soundtrack to <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/12\/friday-cat-blogging-inside-llewyn-davis.html\" target=\"_self\">Inside Llewyn Davis<\/a>.&#0160; I listened to it on the drive home with raindrops on the windshield and tears in my eyes. Here are some tunes from it:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=coX8RsAN3V4&amp;list=PLH2M08aAPeqrsFF_IrL4gJK7C50q_MUT4\" target=\"_self\">The Last Thing on My Mind<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T9yPd5nQJNc\" target=\"_self\">Five Hundred Miles<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vJxsTq4brTM\" target=\"_self\">Fare Thee Well<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q-I1y8RpmXw\" target=\"_self\">Fare Well<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-QjqFhVfZAg\" target=\"_self\">The Roving Gambler<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gq-BS_FfMZc\" target=\"_self\">Green, Green Rocky Road<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long and leisurely breakfast this morning with Peter Lupu, Mike Valle, and Richard Klaus, I stopped by Bookman&#39;s and got lucky.&#0160; I found a used copy of Milton Steinberg&#39;s 1939 novel, As a Driven Leaf.&#0160; The title is from Job 13: 24-25: &quot;Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face. . . Wilt thou harass a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/10\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-two-fortuitous-finds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday Night at the Oldies: Two Fortuitous Finds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-matters","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}