{"id":325,"date":"2002-02-28T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2002-02-28T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/02\/28\/325.html"},"modified":"2002-02-28T09:30:06","modified_gmt":"2002-02-28T17:30:06","slug":"on-detection-as-one-of-the-fin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/02\/28\/on-detection-as-one-of-the-fin\/","title":{"rendered":"On detection as one of the fine arts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While I'm thinking about magazine stuff, I should mention that the latest entry in Ben Rosenbaum's \"Other Cities\" series, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/index.pl?Contents=\/2002\/20020218\/zvlotsk.shtml\">Zvlotsk<\/a>,\" is one of my two favorites from the whole series.  Um, make that three.  Okay, maybe it's one of my four favorites.  One of my favorites, okay?<\/p>\n<p>I'm obliquely reminded of one of my favorite .sigs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If once a man indulges in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8212;\"On Murder as One of the Fine Arts,\" by Thomas de Quincey<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(I've always wondered what the rest of that piece must be like; it's the only context in which I've ever heard of de Quincey.  See <a href=\"http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/abrax7\/murder.htm\">this article<\/a> for a bit of discussion of the whole essay.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, mostly I wanted to say that after you read \"Zvlotsk\" you should be sure to scroll down past the author bio to the further-reading section.  Hmm&#8212;if I'd thought of the de Quincey piece, I might have suggested that Ben add it to that bibliography.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m thinking about magazine stuff, I should mention that the latest entry in Ben Rosenbaum&#8217;s &#8220;Other Cities&#8221; series, &#8220;Zvlotsk,&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}