{"id":4604,"date":"2022-05-29T15:52:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T22:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=4604"},"modified":"2025-03-06T21:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T05:06:47","slug":"imaginary-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/imaginary-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Imaginary You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imaginary you!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You are not what<br \/>\nI think.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Phantasmagory at the focal<br \/>\npoints of my desire, you subsist till<br \/>\ntricks insomnia has taught<br \/>\nme drive my private sides of you from thought.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>I see through you. I know that, mine, you will<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>not be mine. So let this <i>vade retro<\/i> dispel<br \/>\nyour daemon, fetching figment I wrought.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><br \/>\nAnd you, imago, inexorably<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">assuming <\/span><i style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">her<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"> aspect.<br \/>\n<\/span>You are the finer of the two.<br \/>\nShe disappoints, leads astray.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>She<br \/>\nalways refuses to stay perfect,<br \/>\nimaginary, intangible you.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>A sonnet from 1975, a relic from Montreal which was polished and finished in Berkeley.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>It has two addressees, the lover\u00a0herself, and her imago, the inner image I am trying to disentangle from the presential, physical desire which motivated this affair, one which marked me for life.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Imaginary you!\u00a0 You are not what I think.\u00a0 Phantasmagory at the focal points of my desire, you subsist till tricks insomnia has taught me drive my private sides of you from thought. I see through you. I know that, mine, you will not be mine. So let this vade retro dispel your daemon, fetching figment &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/imaginary-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Imaginary You!&#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,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=4604"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5033,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions\/5033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}