{"id":14060,"date":"2011-07-09T17:52:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T00:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=14060"},"modified":"2011-07-09T17:52:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T00:52:34","slug":"love-is-such-an-old-fashioned-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/07\/09\/love-is-such-an-old-fashioned-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Love is Such an Old Fashioned Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walrusmagazine.ca\/articles\/2011.07-sls-unified-contest-love-is-such-an-oldfashioned-word\/\">Love Is Such an Old-Fashioned Word<\/a> &#8211; by Blaire Broussa (Via the Walrus)<br \/>\n\u201cThe limits of my language are the limits of my world\u201d \u2014 Ludwig Wittgenstein<\/p>\n<p>Read this delightful story here <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Felix Bronislav met Helen Ferapont in 1937, she was already an expert in Panini\u2019s sutras on Sanskrit grammar. She was working on her dissertation under Nikolai Trubetzkoy in Prague, and her Ph.D. thesis was to be a discussion of the deification of speech found in Hindu Scripture. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walrusmagazine.ca\/articles\/2011.07-sls-unified-contest-love-is-such-an-oldfashioned-word\/\">continue here<\/a>) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sumlitsem.org\/slscontest.html#slsuc\">Blaire Broussa <\/a> the winner of SLS contest  First place<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BlaireBroussa.jpg\" alt=\"BlaireBroussa\" title=\"BlaireBroussa\" width=\"460\" height=\"368\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BlaireBroussa.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BlaireBroussa-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blaire Broussa&#8217;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blairbourassa.wordpress.com\/\">Voice in the Wilderness <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from Love is such an old fashioned word <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Helen went to revolutionary China to study both Mandarin and the praying-mantis school of Tai-Chi in Shandong province, writing verbose and melancholy letters back to Felix, ending each epistle with luxurious postscripts in a calligraphy that dripped libidinously off the page:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/calligraphy.png\" alt=\"calligraphy\" title=\"calligraphy\" width=\"200\" height=\"87\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14073\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love Is Such an Old-Fashioned Word &#8211; by Blaire Broussa (Via the Walrus) \u201cThe limits of my language are the limits of my world\u201d \u2014 Ludwig Wittgenstein Read this delightful story here When Felix Bronislav met Helen Ferapont in 1937, she was already an expert in Panini\u2019s sutras on Sanskrit grammar. She was working on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/07\/09\/love-is-such-an-old-fashioned-word\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Love is Such an Old Fashioned Word&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}