{"id":1220,"date":"2014-11-05T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T07:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2014-11-05T20:14:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T11:14:57","slug":"a-damp-drizzly-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/05\/a-damp-drizzly-november\/","title":{"rendered":"A damp, drizzly November"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Acorn squash for lunch in the university cafeteria. For dessert, ginko leaves.<\/p>\n

Oh, Ishmael, I love you, buddy, but you should have stuck with me in November.<\/p>\n

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is A DAMP, DRIZZLY NOVEMBER in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I get it. You needed to get away. But if you’d just planned ahead a bit more, if you’d just imagined how you might\u00a0<\/em>have felt\u00a0in November\u00a0had you,\u00a0in order to prevent that melancholy from washing over you,\u00a0gone up to\u00a0New England and imbibed the fall colors in <\/em>October<\/em>, all your trouble could have been avoided.<\/p>\n

But even if you did let November slip up upon you, you could have just come to visit me<\/em>. I’m guessing the trees here in Shizuoka in November are a lot like they are in New England in October.<\/p>\n

Why, oh, why did you choose to immerse your gray soul in a gray sea and go on a wild hunt for a colorless whale? Trust me, the bright fall colors would have been better for your damp, drizzly soul.\u00a0 We know<\/em> its dark down in the depths of the ocean. No need to confirm it.<\/p>\n

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Certainly, if I could have met you at the docks, I would have suggested the mountains of Umegashima over the Pequod, or at least a walk around our Shizuoka University campus.<\/p>\n

I wish you could have been on campus\u00a0with me today. I truly do.<\/p>\n

And I hope I can take you to the mountains some time.<\/p>\n

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Well, you had your hard time, and I’m not sure where you are now, but if you have access to these words, let me take this opportunity to extend an open-ended invitation to you: come look at the colors.<\/p>\n

They’re everywhere.<\/p>\n

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Maybe next time, a bit about that Ahab dude.<\/p>\n

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Acorn squash for lunch in the university cafeteria. For dessert, ginko leaves. Oh, Ishmael, I love you, buddy, but you should have stuck with me in November. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is A DAMP, DRIZZLY NOVEMBER in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, … Continue reading A damp, drizzly November<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}