{"id":553,"date":"2015-01-15T17:09:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T17:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=553"},"modified":"2015-01-15T17:09:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T17:09:13","slug":"splattered-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=553","title":{"rendered":"Splattered Context"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Yves<\/a>

Yves Klein, Anthropom\u00e9trie de l’Epoque Bleue<\/p><\/div>\n

Clio, the fictional character of my novel Clio’s Mobile Home<\/em> and sometimes alter ego, used to write a blog, Full Dance Card.\u00a0\u00a0 Clio was very open.\u00a0 Her consciousness was like an open field for vectors of all kinds, a place where different stances and modes of being crossed.\u00a0 Sometimes she gave the contradictions equal voice and kept them balanced.\u00a0 If she managed, she gained insight.\u00a0 If not,\u00a0she became a fragmented wreck.<\/p>\n

Clio and I share a nervous system.\u00a0 After last week’s terror attacks in Paris, I nearly split apart with the bouillon of empathy, pity, anger, regret.\u00a0 Not only was I trying to contain my own experience — my long, deep relationship with France, being a Jew and a journalist.\u00a0 But I was balancing\u00a0the blast from close friends – leftists who railed about blowback, Jews who accused France of indelible anti-Semitism, Frenchies who were reeling from shock and spoke out of their pain.\u00a0 I managed to throw out the CIA plot from conspiracy theorists, but my head was spinning with bitter oppositions that seem unresolvable.\u00a0 They were alienating me from what was once called home – which is context.<\/p>\n

Wars are conducted on different battlefields.\u00a0 Russ Douthat, in The<\/em> New York Times<\/em>, said France was the battlefield where Europe’s contradictions would be played out.\u00a0 Dostoevsky said man’s soul was the battlefield over which God and the Devil fight.<\/p>\n

Art is a place to negotiate contradictions.\u00a0 Before they become art, they swirl in the artist.\u00a0 I can’t wait to\u00a0put them on the page.<\/p>\n

#JeSuisClio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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