{"id":19,"date":"2015-02-12T18:52:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophieri\/?p=19"},"modified":"2015-02-12T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:52:19","slug":"spahrschell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophieri\/2015\/02\/12\/spahrschell\/","title":{"rendered":"Spahr\/Schell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all the talk and readings about 9\/11, the thoughts sort of just become a blur, maybe a bubble, or maybe just a cloud of smoke, just like the one&#8217;s from the attack, but none-the-less, they&#8217;re dark and gloomy. Upon reading Juliana Spahr&#8217;s <em>This Connection of Everyone with Lungs<\/em>\u00a0and more specifically, her entry from February 15th, 2003, her attitude of the event completely shifts from passion (derived from frustration and hope) to nonchalant, carelessness. Her entries change from &#8220;Beloveds, we do not know how to live our lives with any agency outside of our bed&#8221; (26) and &#8220;When I speak of feet I speak of attacks conceived in Afghanistan, planned in Germany, funded through Budai, executed in America, using Saudis&#8221; (27) to &#8220;Of course other things happened&#8230; but mainly people gathered&#8221; (55). It&#8217;s as if she just completely gave up and brought on a entirely new behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Spahr writes &#8220;Here is today. Three million in Rome. Two million in Spain. One and a half million in London&#8230; The list goes on. Millions. And if not millions, then hundreds of thousands&#8221; (53) and then she continues to list at least 90 other cities and countries. She sort of took on an Oskar Schell type vibe with the extensive listings, numbers, and overall; information.<\/p>\n<p>Spahr&#8217;s writing style relates to Foer&#8217;s <em>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close<\/em>\u00a0with the endless repetition, listing, precision to facts and information seen on page 73, 49, or\/and 51. Foer writes &#8220;&#8230; I found 472 people&#8230; there were 216 different addresses&#8230; I calculated that if I went to two every Sunday, which seemed possible, plus holidays, minus <em>Hamlet<\/em> rehearsals and other stuff&#8230; it would take me about three years to go through them all (51).&#8221; The confident yet uncaring tone of voice carried by both Spahr and Schell\/Foer show the trauma and effects from the attacks on 9\/11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all the talk and readings about 9\/11, the thoughts sort of just become a blur, maybe a bubble, or maybe just a cloud of smoke, just like the one&#8217;s from the attack, but none-the-less, they&#8217;re dark and gloomy. Upon reading Juliana Spahr&#8217;s This Connection of Everyone with Lungs\u00a0and more specifically, her entry from February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophieri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophieri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophieri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophieri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophieri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophieri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophieri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophieri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophieri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophieri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}