{"id":3640,"date":"2009-03-16T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2009-03-16T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T13:52:00","slug":"monday-morning-montaigne-the-grand-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/monday-morning-montaigne-the-grand-finale","title":{"rendered":"Monday Morning Montaigne: The Grand Finale!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aesop, that great man, saw his master pissing as he walked. “What next?” he said. “Shall we have to shit as we run?” Let us manage our time; we shall still have a lot left idle and ill spent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sorry, dear readers, but I’ll write my last MMM post next week. I’m kinda busy this morning and I had some stuff to do last weekend. But I did<\/em> finish the final essay, Of experience<\/em> (pp. 992-1045), whence the passage above derives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aesop, that great man, saw his master pissing as he walked. “What next?” he said. “Shall we have to shit as we run?” Let us manage our time; we shall still have a lot left idle and ill spent. Sorry, dear readers, but I’ll write my last MMM post next week. I’m kinda busy this … <\/p>\n

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