{"id":767,"date":"2005-12-20T07:46:13","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T12:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/art-and-life\/"},"modified":"2005-12-22T17:21:18","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T22:21:18","slug":"art-and-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/art-and-life","title":{"rendered":"Art and Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arts critic Terry Teachout nearly died from congestive heart failure. He wrote an elegant piece about the experience. It includes a lovely passage from a novel I’d never heard of, The Edge of Sadness<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I believe with all my heart in the mercy and providence of God, and I believe in a future unimaginably brighter and better than anything I have known here–and yet of course the whole difficulty is that I have known and have loved “here.” Very much. So that when the time comes for me to go, I know that I will go with full confidence in God–but I also know that I will go with sadness [. . .]<\/blockquote>\n

You oughtta read the whole post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arts critic Terry Teachout nearly died from congestive heart failure. He wrote an elegant piece about the experience. It includes a lovely passage from a novel I’d never heard of, The Edge of Sadness: I believe with all my heart in the mercy and providence of God, and I believe in a future unimaginably brighter … <\/p>\n

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