{"id":6294,"date":"2013-11-03T15:10:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T23:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6294"},"modified":"2013-11-03T15:10:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T23:10:53","slug":"tomorrow-i-will-complete-a-12-month-literary-fasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/tomorrow-i-will-complete-a-12-month-literary-fasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow I will complete a 12-month literary &#8220;fasting&#8221;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Tomorrow I will complete a 12-month literary &#8220;fasting&#8221; with almost no reading at all outside mathematics (and some, very very few classic texts, plus this page and a few links). RESULT: The BS detector is oversensitized. I don&#8217;t know if the effect will go away soon; for now things I used to find mildly BS are now totally repellent, but things that I used to enjoy reading (like Italo Calvino&#8217;s Folk Tales) are just as pleasant.<br \/>But modern literature, and the very notion of &#8220;public intellectual&#8221; I can no longer stand. It feels largely like hype and fashion-magazine discourse. I am scheduled to go to Jaipur festival in January and can&#8217;t bear the idea of listening to writers, talking to them&#8230; I am in trouble.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151801321318375&amp;id=13012333374\">Tomorrow I will complete a 12-month literary&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow I will complete a 12-month literary &#8220;fasting&#8221; with almost no reading at all outside mathematics (and some, very very few classic texts, plus this page and a few links). RESULT: The BS detector is oversensitized. I don&#8217;t know if the effect will go away soon; for now things I used to find mildly BS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6296,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294\/revisions\/6296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}