{"id":2462,"date":"2010-11-13T15:33:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T23:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/fbd4454f2c3a448b"},"modified":"2010-12-21T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T01:27:13","slug":"summa-theologiae-the-notion-of-book-as-monument-missing-a-piece-of-the-works-feels-equivalent-to-owning-a-large-painting-with-a-missing-area-these-derive-their-splendor-from-their-comprehensivenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/summa-theologiae-the-notion-of-book-as-monument-missing-a-piece-of-the-works-feels-equivalent-to-owning-a-large-painting-with-a-missing-area-these-derive-their-splendor-from-their-comprehensivenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Summa Theologiae, the notion of Book-as-Monument. Missing a piece of the works feels equivalent to owning a large painting with a missing area.  These derive their splendor from their comprehensiveness.Books as monument (though not Summas):  Bayle&#039;s Dictionaire (16 vol!),Proust&#039;s Recherche, Gibbon&#039;s D&amp;F, Zola&#039;s Rougon Macquart,  Martin Du Gard&#039;s Les Thibault, Anthony Something Dance to the Music of Time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summa Theologiae, the notion of Book-as-Monument. Missing a piece of the works feels equivalent to owning a large painting with a missing area.  These derive their splendor from their comprehensiveness.<br \/>Books as monument (though not Summas):  Bayle&#39;s Dictionaire (16 vol!),Proust&#39;s Recherche, Gibbon&#39;s D&amp;F, Zola&#39;s Rougon Macquart,  Martin Du Gard&#39;s Les Thibault, Anthony Something Dance to the Music of Time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summa Theologiae, the notion of Book-as-Monument. Missing a piece of the works feels equivalent to owning a large painting with a missing area.  These derive their splendor from their comprehensiveness.Books as monument (though not Summas):  Bayle&#039;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2680,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions\/2680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}