{"id":562,"date":"2011-05-16T07:16:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T07:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nabourke.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2011-05-16T07:16:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T07:16:16","slug":"untitled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Untitled"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to pinpoint the beginning of a new work, but here’s an attempt to do so only a little while after the thing has put on flesh. Three things:<\/p>\n

From David M Carrolls’ Following the Water: A Hydromancer’s Notebook<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“They say that the Sufi is always looking for his beloved,” she said. “You are always seeking your beloved.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cresssida<\/em>, Act III, Scene 2:<\/p>\n

Nothing, but our undertakings when we vow to weep seas,
\nlive in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers; thinking it harder for our
\nmistress to devise imposition enough than for us to undergo any
\ndifficulty imposed. This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that
\nthe will is infinite, and the execution confin’d; that the desire
\nis boundless, and the act a slave to limit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And an image:<\/p>\n

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Or two:<\/p>\n

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It’s hard to pinpoint the beginning of a new work, but here’s an attempt to do so only a little while after the thing has put on flesh. Three things: From David M Carrolls’ Following the Water: A Hydromancer’s Notebook: “They say that the Sufi is always looking for his beloved,” she said. “You are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[167,182],"tags":[338,339],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-writing","category-work-in-progress","tag-sufi","tag-troilus-and-cressida"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4LH1G-untitled","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}