{"id":2758,"date":"2014-12-16T15:24:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T23:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2015-06-18T22:20:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T05:20:23","slug":"drahtseilkunstler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2758","title":{"rendered":"Drahtseilk\u00fcnstler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Dichten ist schrecklich.<br \/>\nNiemand weiss genau<br \/>\nwie die W\u00f6rter Worte<br \/>\nwerden, jedes zuerst<\/p>\n<p>ein Belvedere, vor dem<br \/>\nAbgr\u00fcnde g\u00e4hnen.<br \/>\nDie Worte, nicht mehr<br \/>\nW\u00f6rter, sind aneinander<\/p>\n<p>wie schaukelnde Seile<br \/>\ngekettet, die jeder,<br \/>\nder dichtet und ohne Griff<br \/>\nL\u00f6cher in die Luft guckt,<\/p>\n<p>sorgf\u00e4ltig beschreitet,<br \/>\num nicht in die Kluft hin-<br \/>\neinzurutschen.\u00a0Dichter<br \/>\nm\u00fcssen\u00a0schwindelfrei.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>***<\/div>\n<div><em><em>I am amused by my urge to write in\u00a0German, as in this description of the poetic act. The first part turns around the odd fact that German has two words for &#8220;word&#8221;, distinguished from each other only in the plural.\u00a0Prose\u00a0translation: \u00a0<\/em><\/em>Tightrope Artist \/\u00a0Poetry is terrifying.\u00a0No one knows exactly\u00a0how one word links to\u00a0another, each \/ a prospect opening onto\u00a0a yawning gulf.\u00a0Once spun into a chain, placed one after the other, \/\u00a0they sway like a tightrope\u00a0upon which anyone who\u00a0writes, staring uneasily\u00a0into empty space, \/ must\u00a0tread carefully,\u00a0so as not to slip into the void.\u00a0A writer must not\u00a0suffer from vertigo. <em>Thanks to F.P. for vetting.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"likebtn_container\" style=\"\"><!-- LikeBtn.com BEGIN --><span class=\"likebtn-wrapper\"  data-identifier=\"post_2758\"  data-site_id=\"56b78e2ba4c688a2131dca0b\"  data-style=\"\"  data-unlike_allowed=\"\"  data-show_copyright=\"\"  data-item_url=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2758\"  data-item_title=\"Drahtseilk\u00fcnstler\"  data-item_date=\"2014-12-16T15:24:16-08:00\"  data-engine=\"WordPress\"  data-plugin_v=\"2.6.59\"  data-prx=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=likebtn_prx\"  data-event_handler=\"likebtn_eh\" ><\/span><!-- LikeBtn.com END --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dichten ist schrecklich. 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Die Worte, nicht mehr W\u00f6rter, sind aneinander wie schaukelnde Seile gekettet, die jeder, der dichtet und ohne Griff L\u00f6cher in die Luft guckt, sorgf\u00e4ltig beschreitet, um nicht in die Kluft hin- einzurutschen.\u00a0Dichter m\u00fcssen\u00a0schwindelfrei. *** I am &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2758\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drahtseilk\u00fcnstler&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"likebtn_container\" style=\"\"><!-- LikeBtn.com BEGIN --><span class=\"likebtn-wrapper\"  data-identifier=\"post_2758\"  data-site_id=\"56b78e2ba4c688a2131dca0b\"  data-style=\"\"  data-unlike_allowed=\"\"  data-show_copyright=\"\"  data-item_url=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2758\"  data-item_title=\"Drahtseilk\u00fcnstler\"  data-item_date=\"2014-12-16T15:24:16-08:00\"  data-engine=\"WordPress\"  data-plugin_v=\"2.6.59\"  data-prx=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=likebtn_prx\"  data-event_handler=\"likebtn_eh\" ><\/span><!-- LikeBtn.com END --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-deutsch-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}