{"id":9613,"date":"2012-06-22T15:58:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T15:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/22\/zuckerman-unbound\/"},"modified":"2012-06-22T15:58:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T15:58:06","slug":"zuckerman-unbound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/22\/zuckerman-unbound\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerman Unbound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Philip Roth, <em>Exit Ghost<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), p. 58: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">All in all, being without any need to play a role was preferable to      the friction and agitation and conflict and pointlessness and      disgust that, as a person ages, can render less than desirable the      manifold relations that make for a rich, full life. I stayed away      because over the years I conquered a way of life that I (and not      just I) would have thought impossible, and there&#39;s pride taken in      that. I may have left New York because I was fearful, but by paring      and paring and paring away, I found in my solitude a species of      freedom that was to my liking much of the time.       I shed the tyranny of my intensity &#8212; or, perhaps, by living apart      for over a decade, merely reveled in its sternest mode. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Embarked as they are upon a life of exploration rather than    representation, novelists, like philosophers, may find irksome,    confining, and perhaps even impossible the playing of roles.    Role-instantiation engenders a richness of relations, and with that    comes fullness of life, but these relations are willingly renounced    for a solitude austere, cold, but free.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Roth, Exit Ghost (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), p. 58: All in all, being without any need to play a role was preferable to the friction and agitation and conflict and pointlessness and disgust that, as a person ages, can render less than desirable the manifold relations that make for a rich, full life. I stayed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/22\/zuckerman-unbound\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zuckerman Unbound&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613","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=9613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}