{"id":20188,"date":"2018-07-11T13:04:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T17:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=20188"},"modified":"2018-07-11T13:05:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T17:05:37","slug":"the-anachronist-in-the-florida-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=20188","title":{"rendered":"The Anachronist in the Florida Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Korcula, Croatia) I am in Europe for a mixture of work–in Ukraine and Germany–and vacation. Meanwhile, the Florida Review has published The Anachronist<\/a>\u00a0as a multimedia feature. It begins:<\/p>\n

The Argument<\/em><\/p>\n

A<\/b>\u00a0woman is bound to the stake to be burned:
\nN<\/b>o hope of using the secrets she\u2019s learned.
\nA<\/b>\u00a0sagacious doctor awaits his fate,
\nC<\/b>aptive in the Tower behind Traitor\u2019s Gate.
\nH<\/b>is student could strike to make justice prevail.
\nR<\/b>ighteous is he, but his judgment may fail.
\nO<\/b>ver the sea comes a painter who sought\u2014
\nN<\/b>ot the dark cellar in which he is caught.
\nI<\/b>n the midst of these four, a lady is torn.
\nS<\/b>he must choose just one, leave the rest forlorn.
\nT<\/b>ime\u2019s arrow flies;\u00a0let us find where it lies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A woman stands to her waist in a mound of logs and neatly bundled furze kindling. The split logs beneath her feet cut into her bare soles. A rope winds around her body from her thighs to a triple knot at her chest. The stray hairs on the knot\u2019s surface shake in the wind.<\/p>\n

She thinks: You watch small, harmless things like this every day of your life. If I were a child, I would play with this rope, pull its strands apart, or drag it behind me like a tail.<\/p>\n

The words she hears in her head are Dutch, her native language. Although her body is trussed, she can turn her face. On her left she sees seated clergymen and dignitaries. The name \u201cThomas Lucy\u201d\u2014\u201cSir Thomas\u201d\u2014comes into her mind as she identifies a bearded, red-faced gentleman with a heavy gold chain over his furs. Look how calm he seems now, she thinks. Look at his fat hands, how relaxed they are, clasped over his fat belly. When he questioned me in the castle, those hands were always twitching, scratching, accusing ….<\/p>\n

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(Korcula, Croatia) I am in Europe for a mixture of work–in Ukraine and Germany–and vacation. Meanwhile, the Florida Review has published The Anachronist\u00a0as a multimedia feature. It begins: The Argument A\u00a0woman is bound to the stake to be burned: No hope of using the secrets she\u2019s learned. A\u00a0sagacious doctor awaits his fate, Captive in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-and-worse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20190,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20188\/revisions\/20190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}