As one gets older, they say, the memory is the second thing to go.<\/p>\n
The first thing to go, of course, is the memory.<\/p>\n
So I’m having a conversation with my friend Eric. The topic is (surprise) Marx Brothers movies, specifically some of the later ones, and I’m looking for a certain descriptive word, and unbidden, from deep within the “These Words Aren’t Even On The SAT Anymore” vault, here it comes:<\/p>\n
“Pastiche”.<\/em><\/p>\n He stops.<\/p>\n I stop.<\/p>\n “I think<\/em> that’s the right word,” I say. We both go to the dictionary to look it up.<\/p>\n As it happens, it was exactly the word I’d been looking for, down to the shadings and implications. We’re talking dead center of the bullseye here.<\/p>\n If someone had asked me what that word meant meant five minutes before our conversation, I couldn’t have told them.<\/p>\n And now I am most fraught.<\/p>\n How did I know that word? And what the hell else<\/strong> do I know that I don’t know about? <\/p>\n And do I really not know these things, or am I just keeping them a secret from me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As one gets older, they say, the memory is the second thing to go. The first thing to go, of course, is the memory. So I’m having a conversation with my friend Eric. The topic is (surprise) Marx Brothers movies, specifically some of the later ones, and I’m looking for a certain descriptive word, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}