{"id":1148,"date":"2009-06-24T15:02:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2009-06-24T15:02:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:02:14","slug":"wholly-narrative-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/06\/24\/wholly-narrative-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Wholly narrative conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[Tolkien] shared little of Edith&#8217;s delight in the type of person (as C.S. Lewis expressed it) &#8216;whose general conversation is almost wholly narrative&#8217;, and though he found an occasional articulate fellow male among the guests he was sometimes reduced to silent and impotent rage by the feeling of imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>-Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, p.249<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ever felt this way? You want to talk about something deep or abstract and the only conversations going on concern was narrative: What I had for lunch, what my dog did yesterday, how we visited my brother-in-law last week, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Look at your average Facebook or Twitter feed to find plenty of this.<\/p>\n<p>And of course this is always a big part of our conversation. It&#8217;s who we are. But how much more satisfying to take a step back and look at some of the big picture items. Can I get a witness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Tolkien] shared little of Edith&#8217;s delight in the type of person (as C.S. Lewis expressed it) &#8216;whose general conversation is almost wholly narrative&#8217;, and though he found an occasional articulate fellow male among the guests he was sometimes reduced to silent and impotent rage by the feeling of imprisonment. -Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/06\/24\/wholly-narrative-conversation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wholly narrative conversation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}