{"id":36,"date":"2005-07-06T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2005-07-06T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T22:20:00","slug":"on-opacity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/on-opacity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On opacity (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And this further comment by Paul Celan:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leave the poem its darkness; maybe \u2014 maybe! \u2014 it will give, when the excessive brightness, which the exact sciences today already know how to put before our eyes, will have changed the very ground of the human genotype, \u2014 maybe it will give, on the ground of this ground, shade in which man can reflect on his humanity. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And one more:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The poem speaks of the first and most accidental things as if they were <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">the last ones<\/span>: The near is at the same time the infinitely distant; if it has the opacity of what stands opposite it, it also has the brightness of the faraway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And this further comment by Paul Celan: Leave the poem its darkness; maybe \u2014 maybe! \u2014 it will give, when the excessive brightness, which the exact sciences today already know how to put before&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}