{"id":8023,"date":"2014-04-14T15:40:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T15:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/04\/14\/patrick-kurp-on-philip-larkin\/"},"modified":"2014-04-14T15:40:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T15:40:59","slug":"patrick-kurp-on-philip-larkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/04\/14\/patrick-kurp-on-philip-larkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Kurp on Philip Larkin"},"content":{"rendered":"

A post<\/a> that moves me to find Larkin's Letters to Monica<\/em>.  Kurp quotes Larkin:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that will eventually claim me: in other words, old age, incapacity, loneliness, death of others & myself . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Related: Philip Larkin on Death<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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A post that moves me to find Larkin's Letters to Monica.  Kurp quotes Larkin: I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that will eventually claim me: in other words, old age, incapacity, loneliness, death of others & myself . . . . Related: … Continue reading “Patrick Kurp on Philip Larkin”<\/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":[184,40,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-and-immortality","category-literary-matters","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023","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=8023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}