{"id":2602,"date":"2024-07-09T08:29:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T08:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2024-07-09T08:31:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T08:31:03","slug":"been-with-hesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2602","title":{"rendered":"Been with Hesse&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by the channel in Dalyan, lounging on the deck with <em>Der Steppenwolf<\/em>. Much of it reads as teenage froth after <em>The Magic Mountain<\/em> &#8211; that book will throw a long shadow &#8211; but it&#8217;s got a few sections where he stares deeper into the heart of the wolfman. It&#8217;s not the right tempo with the heat and the boats chugging by, the carvings in the cliff, the sips of Turkish coffee. I should have stayed longer, brought other books, should have spent a week by the lake channel to the sea. But we were out to Istanbul after two days, to a thin terrace between the crumbling chimneys and the gulls, the air-con boxes and pipes, the roof slope disarray and bottles of Efes Pilsner Reserve, salted almonds in white bowls and cut views of the blue waterways. I should have stayed longer in that place too, with the street cats. Always rushing on, no time for my terrible drawing, no time for strategy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/coffee-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2603\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/coffee-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/coffee-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/coffee-1-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by the channel in Dalyan, lounging on the deck with Der Steppenwolf. Much of it reads as teenage froth after The Magic Mountain &#8211; that book will throw a long shadow &#8211; but it&#8217;s got a few sections where he stares deeper into the heart of the wolfman. It&#8217;s not the right tempo with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}