{"id":374,"date":"2004-09-17T08:24:38","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T16:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=374"},"modified":"2006-10-17T19:05:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T23:05:33","slug":"headless-zaftig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/09\/17\/headless-zaftig\/","title":{"rendered":"Headless Zaftig"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s photo of Bill Lewis clearing snow off of his canoe with a wooden paddle brought this emailed response:
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Look at the picture you posted on the blog, the snowy one. That thing on the left looks like a zaftig headless, armless woman with very large breasts. I wonder what it means. Other than that distraction it’s a gorgeous picture.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nThat \u00e2\u20ac\u0153distraction\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was a snow woman (instead of breasts, I see Snoopy with those half arms looking more like ears) created by Adam, who sends this disclaimer:
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It means that Adam was at the time barely 30 , had been celibately in the woods for what at that time passed for a longish while, and was working out his own anxieties not with a knife to the throat, but by creating visions of comfort by turning the very stuff of threat into the stuff of play.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
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\nA closer look at the sculptor and the sculpture<\/a>
\nThe scene to which Adam alludes is Bill deciding to end it all because : A. We have canoed down a fast flowing river to get to this campsite and there is no way to paddle back up the river. B. The lake water is so cold that if we capsize we die, and C. We are in the middle of nowhere and our bodies won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be found until spring. What Bill doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t yet know, and is an even better reason to cut his throat, is Adam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plan – load the canoes with all of our gear and pull them overland back to our minivan. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know the exact distance, but it took us two trips and eight hours.
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\nThe rest of the story written soon after the trip is here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s photo of Bill Lewis clearing snow off of his canoe with a wooden paddle brought this emailed response: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Look at the picture you posted on the blog, the snowy one. That thing on the left looks like a zaftig … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}