{"id":3668,"date":"2009-03-25T14:14:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T18:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3668"},"modified":"2009-03-25T14:14:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T18:14:25","slug":"wednesday-0-fer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wednesday-0-fer","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 0-fer"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may not have realized it, dear reader, but I’ve actually been adhering to a somewhat regular schedule with some of this blog’s features. Monday is What It Is<\/em> day, Tuesday’s are for Lost in the Supermarket<\/em>, Wednesday is 0-fer<\/em> day, and Friday brings us Unrequired Reading<\/em>! (Since Friends<\/em> went off the air, Thursdays have been a bleak time for me.) (Just kidding; I’ve never actually seen a full episode of Friends, but that doesn’t mean it qualifies as an 0-fer.)<\/p>\n

Maybe I’ll put up a sidebar that breaks out the schedule and shows the most recent post in each series. Considering how long it took me to go through my blogroll and pare away sites I’m no longer interested in (while adding a bazillion sites I’ve lately discovered), I wouldn’t hold my breath for that.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I went downstairs to my library yesterday to figure out who this week’s 0-fer should be. There are plenty of candidates, as I’ve bought far too many books over the course of my life by far too many authors whom I’ll never get around to even sampling. Still, there’s no fun in bringing up an 0-fer whom no one has ever heard of (“Why, you’ve never read J.A. Macgillivray<\/a>?!”), so I combed the shelves until I came up with . . .<\/p>\n

D.H. Lawrence<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Yup! I’ve never read a word of his stuff: not Sons & Lovers<\/em>, nor Lady Chatterley’s Lover<\/em>, nor Women in Love<\/em>, nor any other of the Love-related titles. Possibly for that reason.<\/p>\n

A pal of mine from grad school has offered to read some Lawrence with me in a remote book club, but I’ve hemmed and hawed about that, since I’d feel too much pressure to<\/p>\n

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  1. read the book<\/li>\n
  2. have s<\/em>omething smart to say about it<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Even though that’s, like, what I do<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    You may not have realized it, dear reader, but I’ve actually been adhering to a somewhat regular schedule with some of this blog’s features. Monday is What It Is day, Tuesday’s are for Lost in the Supermarket, Wednesday is 0-fer day, and Friday brings us Unrequired Reading! (Since Friends went off the air, Thursdays have … <\/p>\n

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In an act of Godelian irrelevance, I'll try to post a significant 0-fer (as in, \"I've never read a book, play, story or essay by [x]\") every week. This week's 0-fer is\u00c2\u00a0 . . .\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "0-fer"","block_context":{"text":"0-fer","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/0-fer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3895,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/cinc0-fer-de-mayo","url_meta":{"origin":3668,"position":1},"title":"Cinc0-fer de Mayo","author":"Gil","date":"May 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In honor of \"Drink Corona (or whatever Mexican beer you choose) Day,\" I thought I'd go find some well-regarded Mexican authors whom I've never read a word of. 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Or throw me a magazine!\" For reasons I won't bother to mention, a shelf in our downstairs bathroom contains a number of essay\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "0-fer"","block_context":{"text":"0-fer","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/0-fer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0312361750","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4136,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-of-the-week-grass-unfed-edition","url_meta":{"origin":3668,"position":4},"title":"0-fer of the week: Grass-unfed edition","author":"Gil","date":"July 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In keeping with last week's 0-fer of Ezra Pound (and as inspired tangentially by this Bourgeois Surrender post), I offer up my latest literary 0-fer: Gunter Grass! Now I really have to get back to work.","rel":"","context":"In "0-fer"","block_context":{"text":"0-fer","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/0-fer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3371,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-0kay","url_meta":{"origin":3668,"position":5},"title":"0-fer 0kay!","author":"Gil","date":"February 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Whew!","rel":"","context":"In "0-fer"","block_context":{"text":"0-fer","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/0-fer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}