{"id":110,"date":"2004-11-10T11:23:23","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T18:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2004-11-10T11:23:23","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T18:23:23","slug":"syllogisms-by-moonlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2004\/11\/10\/syllogisms-by-moonlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Syllogisms by moonlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<p>Memories of years ago,<br \/> turning pages of Lewis Carroll<br \/> at two in the morning,<br \/> brains hot as we laughed at logic.<\/p>\n<p>How blind we were, then;<br \/> how stargazing and mad<br \/> as we snuck through the gate and<br \/> walked the trails in the black,<br \/> shivering and afraid and invigorated;<br \/> each snap of wood from the dark<br \/> another reason to hold you close.<\/p>\n<p>You were the only one I saw the beavers with,<br \/> and the river otter come out to play;<br \/> as if they&rsquo;d come for you.<br \/> We gave bread to the ducks<br \/> and talked about that first night,<br \/> stars by the lakeside and how<br \/> I was too nervous to sit down.<br \/> I shook like a reed just standing next to you.<\/p>\n<p>We conquered Carroll and perhaps<br \/> I only did it because I felt your equal,<br \/> if just for a minute or two.<br \/> Then you&rsquo;d dazzle me:<br \/> mathematical virtuosity,<br \/> referencing a world of depth I felt beyond me;<br \/> poetry by the dockside as we listened<br \/> to bullfrog bass and waited for stars to fall.<br \/> You offered so much and took so little<br \/> that I had no choice but to feel diminished,<br \/> though the conclusion ignores the premises.<\/p>\n<p>We conquered Carroll for balance<br \/> and we mastered logic,<br \/> ignored that emotion will in its tenacity<br \/> unravel even the most perfect puzzles,<br \/> and were thus undone.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memories of years ago, turning pages of Lewis Carroll at two in the morning, brains hot as we laughed at logic. How blind we were, then; how stargazing and mad as we snuck through the gate and walked the trails in the black, shivering and afraid and invigorated; each snap of wood from the dark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}