{"id":14432,"date":"2018-10-24T01:50:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=14432"},"modified":"2018-10-24T21:44:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T02:44:07","slug":"on-the-bank-by-arseny-tarkovsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2018\/10\/24\/on-the-bank-by-arseny-tarkovsky\/","title":{"rendered":"ON THE BANK by Arseny Tarkovsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He was sitting by the river, among reeds<br \/>\nthat peasants had been scything for their thatch.<br \/>\nAnd it was quiet there, and in his soul<br \/>\nit was quieter and stiller still.<br \/>\nHe kicked off his boots and put<br \/>\nhis feet into the water, and the water<br \/>\nbegan talking to him, not knowing<br \/>\nhe didn\u2019t know its language.<br \/>\nHe had thought that water is deaf-mute,<br \/>\nthat the home of sleepy fish is without words,<br \/>\nthat blue dragonflies hover over the water<br \/>\nand catch mosquitoes or horseflies,<br \/>\nthat you wash if you want to wash, and drink<br \/>\nif you want to drink, and that\u2019s all there is<br \/>\nto water. But in all truth<br \/>\nthe water\u2019s language was a wonder,<br \/>\na story of some kind about some thing,<br \/>\nsome unchanging thing that seemed<br \/>\nlike starlight, like the swift flash of mica,<br \/>\nlike a divination of disaster.<br \/>\nAnd in it was something from childhood,<br \/>\nfrom not being used to counting life in years,<br \/>\nfrom what is nameless<br \/>\nand comes at night before you dream,<br \/>\nfrom the terrible, vegetable<br \/>\nsense of self<br \/>\nof your first season.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how the water was that day,<br \/>\nand its speech was without rhyme or reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler He was sitting by the river, among reeds that peasants had been scything for their thatch. And it was quiet there, and in his soul it was quieter and stiller still. He kicked off his boots and put his feet into the water, and the water began talking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2018\/10\/24\/on-the-bank-by-arseny-tarkovsky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ON THE BANK by Arseny Tarkovsky<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14437,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14432\/revisions\/14437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}