{"id":265336,"date":"2013-07-15T06:57:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T05:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tirade.nu\/?p=10647"},"modified":"2020-03-31T13:29:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T12:29:56","slug":"something-that-could-be-discerned-by-a-better-brain","status":"publish","type":"tirade_blog","link":"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/tirade_blog\/something-that-could-be-discerned-by-a-better-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Something that could be discerned by a better brain<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"v\" alt=\"v\" src=\"http:\/\/cache2.allpostersimages.com\/p\/LRG\/37\/3798\/BYJIF00Z\/posters\/mydans-carl-author-vladimir-nabokov-dictating-to-his-wife.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" \/>\u2018<i>Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past <\/i><i>would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future. Persons might then straddle the middle stretch of the seesaw when considering this or that object.\u00a0 It might be fun. But the future has no such reality (as the pictured past and the perceived present possess); the future is but a figure of speech, a specter of thought.<\/i>\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Nabokov<i>, Transparent Things<\/i> (1972;p.7)<\/p>\n<p>Over 10 dagen verschijnt: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tirade.nu\/?p=10618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Tirade<\/i> 449<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Tirade<\/i> \u2013 vijf keer per jaar tijdloos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future. 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