{"id":2871,"date":"2016-11-04T10:13:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T17:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?page_id=2871"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:35:21","slug":"calligraphy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/calligraphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Dogfight Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What has grazed against the sky and left<br \/>\nas seeping wounds these tangled vines?<br \/>\nLike drenched brushes dabbing at blank<br \/>\nparchment, Zero and Hellcat have turned<br \/>\ndifferential lift into veils of condensation.<br \/>\nBut the hand behind these brushes is the foil<br \/>\nin our dogfight mind. We all fly cursively<br \/>\nin dreams, taking roofs for runways, clearing<br \/>\nwith somatic leaps jagged lines of grasping<br \/>\ntrees, warding off with myoclonic airborne<br \/>\nkicks the threatening clutch of others.<br \/>\nIn the special effects of oneiric flight<br \/>\nwe emulate not birds but martial<br \/>\nfigurations of vertiginous selves.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Photo from Wiki Commons: \u201cFighter plane contrails mark the sky over Task Force 58, 19 June 1944\u201d<\/i><i>)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Fighter_plane_contrails_in_the_sky.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2872\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2872\" src=\"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Fighter_plane_contrails_in_the_sky.jpg\" alt=\"fighter_plane_contrails_in_the_sky\" width=\"491\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Fighter_plane_contrails_in_the_sky.jpg 740w, https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Fighter_plane_contrails_in_the_sky-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Fighter_plane_contrails_in_the_sky.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2872\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What has grazed against the sky and left as seeping wounds these tangled vines? Like drenched brushes dabbing at blank parchment, Zero and Hellcat have turned differential lift into veils of condensation. But the hand behind these brushes is the foil in our dogfight mind. We all fly cursively in dreams, taking roofs for runways, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/calligraphy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Dogfight Mind&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3496,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2871","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5328,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2871\/revisions\/5328"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}