{"id":4771,"date":"2012-07-05T14:31:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T21:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/?p=4771"},"modified":"2015-03-15T22:50:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T05:50:19","slug":"oh-i-say-that-old-gag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/oh-i-say-that-old-gag\/","title":{"rendered":"Veil Over Everything, Oh I Say, That Old Gag"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It could be that Bookoo and Cilice are made of marzipan here. \u00a0Or else Bookoo is dying of consumption, the kind the Victorians used to love; I’m hoping for the former.<\/p>\n

In Henri Murger’s Sc\u00e8nes de la Vie de Boh\u00e8me<\/em> (1850), the main character Francine — a ‘typecast fictional consumptive’ according to the author of The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine<\/em> — has \u201ca rosy tint to her skin, transparent with the whiteness of a camellia” and later “a saintly glow, as if she had died of beauty.\u201d \u00a0A beauty so rare and delicate that it destroys itself with its own amazing-ness: \u00a0how exhausting. \u00a0But the Wastrels can be maudlin like that.<\/p>\n

The odd shape is the result of finding tons of scrap mat board, a love of composites, and looking at Jeffery Camp paintings.<\/p>\n

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approx. 20″ x 24″   It could be that Bookoo and Cilice are made of marzipan here. \u00a0Or else Bookoo is dying of consumption, the kind the Victorians used to love; I’m hoping for the former. In Henri Murger’s Sc\u00e8nes de la Vie de Boh\u00e8me (1850), the main character Francine — a ‘typecast fictional consumptive’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-na","category-wastrels","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4771"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9265,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions\/9265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}