{"id":7622,"date":"2014-10-26T05:15:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T05:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/26\/still-perfect-after-all-these-years\/"},"modified":"2014-10-26T05:15:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T05:15:07","slug":"still-perfect-after-all-these-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/26\/still-perfect-after-all-these-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Perfect After All These Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, <em>The Waste Books<\/em>, tr. R. J. Hollingdale, New York Review Books, 1990, p. 223, Notebook L, Aph. #67: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If we did not remember our youth, we should [would] not be aware of old age:&#0160; the malady of age consists solely in our no longer being able to do what we could do formerly. For the old man is certainly as perfect a creature in his own way as is the young.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The title I supplied alludes to Paul Simon&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ksa4VjKE3RY\" target=\"_self\">Still Crazy After All These Years<\/a>. (What a great song!)<\/span><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2014\/10\/why-lichtenberg-is-not-on-facebook.html\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/305189720_80_80.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2014\/10\/why-lichtenberg-is-not-on-facebook.html\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" target=\"_blank\">Why Lichtenberg is not on Facebook<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books, tr. R. J. Hollingdale, New York Review Books, 1990, p. 223, Notebook L, Aph. #67: If we did not remember our youth, we should [would] not be aware of old age:&#0160; the malady of age consists solely in our no longer being able to do what we could do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/26\/still-perfect-after-all-these-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Still Perfect After All These Years&#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":[181,677,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-lichtenberg-georg","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622","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=7622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}