The writer Dostoevsky went into the White Russian Czar’s prison camp a strong, young man.\u00a0 He emerged two years later, a broken, hobbled, prematurely white-haired shell of a\u00a0man, beaten in body, but not yet in spirit.\u00a0 He also brought with him the classic “Notes from Underground.”<\/p>\n
In our time, a messenger from the north, Bruce Cockburn, brought us “Maybe the Poet”: “Maybe you and he will not agree, but you need him to teach you new ways to SEE …”\u00a0 I often have disagreed with Bruce, but he could not have been more on the mark there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The writer Dostoevsky went into the White Russian Czar’s prison camp a strong, young man.\u00a0 He emerged two years later, a broken, hobbled, prematurely white-haired shell of a\u00a0man, beaten in body, but not yet in spirit.\u00a0 He also brought with him the classic “Notes from Underground.” In our time, a messenger from the north, Bruce… Continue reading Notes from Underground<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfields.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfields.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfields.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfields.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfields.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfields.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/robertfields.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfields.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}