{"id":222,"date":"2023-09-15T12:48:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T12:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/?p=222"},"modified":"2023-09-15T12:48:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T12:48:59","slug":"trains-things-and-a-seeping-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Trains, Things and a Seeping man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Should have been “Sleeping Man”, but this is an apposite typo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I watched the film, “Un homme qui dort<\/a>” , “A Man Asleep”, on Youtube before Christmas, but I didn’t get it and I think I gave up halfway. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3TNurvWW4_0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started reading thee two works “Things: a story of the Sixties” and “A Man Asleep” on my recent train journeys, just finishing the latter yesterday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I must say that reading the two stories one after another made a lot of sense; they contrasted well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perec, G. (2011) Things : a story of the sixties ; with, A man asleep. London: Vintage Classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Old lady on the train<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This old lady sat opposite me on the 90 minute journey to Belfast. She hardly stirred the whole time, lost in thoughts and memories?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Should have been “Sleeping Man”, but this is an apposite typo! I watched the film, “Un homme qui dort” , “A Man Asleep”, on Youtube before Christmas, but I didn’t get it and I think I gave up halfway. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3TNurvWW4_0 I started reading thee two works “Things: a story of the Sixties” and “A Man… Continue reading Trains, Things and a Seeping man<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-pandoras-box","category-wallet","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}