{"id":21041,"date":"2013-07-02T15:04:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T22:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=21041"},"modified":"2013-07-02T16:51:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T23:51:18","slug":"name-these-polish-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2013\/07\/02\/name-these-polish-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Name These Polish Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Her birthday  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1aWislawa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1aWislawa.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1aWislawa\" width=\"406\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1aWislawa.jpg 406w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1aWislawa-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a>(2 July 1923)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/birthday-49\/\">Her birthday poem here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She wrote. (excerpt  &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/1996\/szymborska-poems-4-e.html\">Possibilites<\/a> ) <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I prefer conquered to conquering countries.<br \/>\nI prefer having some reservations.<br \/>\nI prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.<br \/>\nI prefer Grimms&#8217; fairy tales to the newspapers&#8217; front pages.<br \/>\nI prefer leaves without flowers to flowers without leaves.<br \/>\nI prefer dogs with uncropped tails.<br \/>\nI prefer light eyes, since mine are dark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2012\/02\/01\/wislawa-szymborska-dorothea-tanning-mike-kelley-r-i-p\/\">Three Odd Words..<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2006\/01\/18\/214\/\">First Love <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/1996\/nov\/14\/on-szymborska\/\">For me, Szymborska is first of all a poet of consciousness.<\/a>  On Szymborska November 14, 1996  Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz<\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/czeslawM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/czeslawM.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"czeslawM\" width=\"363\" height=\"443\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/czeslawM.jpg 363w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/czeslawM-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1CzesawPolish-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1Czes;awPolish\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1CzesawPolish-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1CzesawPolish.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThe photo above is from his<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Czes%C5%82aw_Mi%C5%82osz\"> wiki quote page.<\/a> Polish kid in the ruins of Warsaw September 1939 <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1d1pLaj5Xe0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><> <> <><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/jerzyKosinski1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/jerzyKosinski1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jerzyKosinski\" width=\"423\" height=\"539\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/jerzyKosinski1.jpg 423w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/jerzyKosinski1-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2010\/06\/14\/who-was-jerzy-kosinski\/\">His last words \u201cI am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity.\u201d <\/a> (Previous post with many interesting links)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>David Foster Wallace described Steps as a \u201ccollection of unbelievably creepy little allegorical tableaux done in a terse elegant voice that\u2019s like nothing else anywhere ever\u201d. Wallace continued in praise: \u201cOnly Kafka\u2019s fragments get anywhere close to where Kosi\u0144ski goes in this book, which is better than everything else he ever did combined.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her birthday (2 July 1923) Her birthday poem here She wrote. (excerpt &#8211;Possibilites ) I prefer conquered to conquering countries. I prefer having some reservations. I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order. I prefer Grimms&#8217; fairy tales to the newspapers&#8217; front pages. I prefer leaves without flowers to flowers without leaves. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2013\/07\/02\/name-these-polish-children\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Name These Polish Children&#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":[110,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-these-children","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21041","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=21041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}