{"id":5859,"date":"2011-01-07T08:28:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T12:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5859"},"modified":"2011-01-07T08:32:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T12:32:38","slug":"where-can-wisdom-be-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/where-can-wisdom-be-found","title":{"rendered":"Where Can Wisdom Be Found?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Philip Roth tells us, not in old age:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iinJC1FpZ6A?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Which is not good news, as I turn 40 next week.<\/p>\n<p>On the upside, he can&#8217;t wait to turn 80!<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"439\" height=\"272\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2gZriemYew8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Philip Roth tells us, not in old age: Which is not good news, as I turn 40 next week. 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He remains #1 on my dream-list of guests for the podcast. Yesterday's interview, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, told me that she's acquaintances with him, but I doubt that'll be enough to get my foot in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;literature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14732,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-452-rosemary-steinbaum","url_meta":{"origin":5859,"position":1},"title":"Episode 452 &#8211; Rosemary Steinbaum","author":"Gil","date":"September 21, 2021","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 452: Rosemary Steinbaum \"His reading and his writing are intertwined. That's the main theme of the Philip Roth Personal Library: a writer at work reading and a reader at work writing.\" It's part 1 of a 2-part show about the new Philip Roth Personal Library at the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/steinbaumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C535&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/steinbaumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C535&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/steinbaumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C535&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/steinbaumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C535&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/steinbaumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C535&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14742,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-453-nadine-sergejeff","url_meta":{"origin":5859,"position":2},"title":"Episode 453 &#8211; Nadine Sergejeff","author":"Gil","date":"September 28, 2021","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 453: Nadine Sergejeff \"What you see when you enter the Philip Roth Personal Library are about three-thousand, seven hundred and twenty books* that have marginalia, are presentation copies, or are otherwise special.\" [* Librarians are very exact] It's part 2 of a 2-part show about the new\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sergejeffcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C494&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sergejeffcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C494&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sergejeffcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C494&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sergejeffcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C494&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sergejeffcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C494&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2029,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sun-roth","url_meta":{"origin":5859,"position":3},"title":"Sun Roth","author":"Gil","date":"May 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Today's edition of the New York Sun's Arts+ section continues to defend its title as Official Newspaper of Gil Roth (and several other Roths, as seen in #s 1 and 2): Roth Time Redux, discussing the impact of Dieter Roth, a new exhibition on Philip Guston, with a shout-out to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15292,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-489-ira-nadel","url_meta":{"origin":5859,"position":4},"title":"Episode 489 &#8211; Ira Nadel","author":"Gil","date":"June 7, 2022","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 489: Ira Nadel \"Roth left so many instructions and prescriptive statements about how things should happen after his death, that he was really trying to \u2014 to use a phrase uttered by the gravedigger in Everyman \u2014 square the hole.\" Professor & biographer Ira Nadel joins the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/nadelcomp.jpg?fit=1063%2C800&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/nadelcomp.jpg?fit=1063%2C800&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/nadelcomp.jpg?fit=1063%2C800&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/nadelcomp.jpg?fit=1063%2C800&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/nadelcomp.jpg?fit=1063%2C800&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14719,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-451-jacques-berlinerblau","url_meta":{"origin":5859,"position":5},"title":"Episode 451 &#8211; Jacques Berlinerblau","author":"Gil","date":"September 14, 2021","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 451: Jacques Berlinerblau \"I think what's different about Roth is the wink and the nod and the game; he's signaling to us in his fiction that he's writing about events and people that are very close to him, and yet repeatedly denied doing so. 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