{"id":1184,"date":"2006-08-15T07:57:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T07:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:51","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:51","slug":"love_your_sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1184","title":{"rendered":"Love Your Sense Of Timing, Gunter…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a variety of reactions to author Gunter Grass’ admission that he was a member of Hitler’s (the real one, not the metaphorical one) SS during World War II.<\/p>\n

Then it hit me. And I went to the bookshelf, and pulled down my copy of ShrinkLits, by Maurice Sagoff.<\/p>\n

Dafoe’s “Moll Flanders”<\/p>\n

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the famous
\nMoll Flanders, who was born in Newgate, and
\nduring a life of continued variety, for
\nthreescore years, besides her childhood,
\nwas twelve years a Whore, five times
\na Wife (thereof once to her own
\nbrother), twelve years a
\nthief, eight years a
\ntransported Felon in Virginia,
\nat last grew rich, lived honest,
\nand died a penitent.
\nWritten from her
\nown memorandums.<\/p>\n

– original title page<\/p>\n

That’s the story,
\n…Briefly told.<\/p>\n

At age 70,
\n…Weak and old,<\/p>\n

Pricked by conscience,
\n…Moll retires,<\/p>\n

Banks her savings
\n…And her fires;<\/p>\n

She repents her
\n…Sins and all…<\/p>\n

Love your sense of timing
\n…Moll.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gunter Grass repents late in life. Armed Liberal wonders where he’s seen it before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}