{"id":778,"date":"2021-02-19T13:47:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=778"},"modified":"2021-02-21T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T18:23:06","slug":"neil-worth-1948-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2021\/02\/19\/neil-worth-1948-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Worth (1948-2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-19-at-1.49.00-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-781 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-19-at-1.49.00-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"976\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-19-at-1.49.00-PM.png 976w, https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-19-at-1.49.00-PM-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-19-at-1.49.00-PM-768x458.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CLbF5ymhXXp\/?igshid=1k0hj08v0gbe8<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>In the 80s when I lived in the Bay Area, Neil Worth was a regular sometimes exhausting interlocutor. After work I&#8217;d drive over to the City where we&#8217;d spend hours tirading about the injustices of world history.<\/p>\n<p>He was remarkably talented, fluent in Russian and conversant in several other European languages, as well as a defender of the California #Chumash people in particular. He never found what society calls a place in it. I just learned for sure what I had long suspected: he passed several years ago anonymously on the streets of San Fransisco.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is in his book-strewn apartment in the Haight in the 90s reading me his notes on some atrocity perpetrated by Western #imperialism.<\/p>\n<p>He loved the sonnet I wrote for him, which begins with an echo of Osip #Mandelstam&#8217;s &#8220;Insomnia. Homer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can find it here: @closelyshavenpoems or here: <a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/shrines\/\">https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/shrines\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Insomnia._Homer._The_rows_of_stretched_sails\">https:\/\/en.m.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Insomnia._Homer._The_rows_of_stretched_sails<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu\/insomnia-homer-taut-sails-by-osip-mandelshtam\/\">https:\/\/classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu\/insomnia-homer-taut-sails-by-osip-mandelshtam\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CLbF5ymhXXp\/?igshid=1k0hj08v0gbe8\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CLbF5ymhXXp\/?igshid=1k0hj08v0gbe8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CLbF5ymhXXp\/?igshid=1k0hj08v0gbe8 * In the 80s when I lived in the Bay Area, Neil Worth was a regular sometimes exhausting interlocutor. After work I&#8217;d drive over to the City where we&#8217;d spend hours tirading about the injustices of world history. He was remarkably talented, fluent in Russian and conversant in several other European languages, as well &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2021\/02\/19\/neil-worth-1948-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Neil Worth (1948-2016)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[129,130],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-berkeley","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}