{"id":4022,"date":"2011-02-26T16:49:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T16:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/02\/26\/literature-is-the-expression-of-a-feeling-of\/"},"modified":"2011-02-26T16:49:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T16:49:33","slug":"literature-is-the-expression-of-a-feeling-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/02\/26\/literature-is-the-expression-of-a-feeling-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><span><strong>Octavio Paz<\/strong><\/span> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/mibad.tumblr.com\/\">mibad<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. 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