{"id":2031,"date":"2014-05-16T15:18:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T15:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/05\/16\/indeed-noon-seems-to-take-the-play-from\/"},"modified":"2015-04-25T18:24:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T16:24:05","slug":"indeed-noon-seems-to-take-the-play-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/05\/16\/indeed-noon-seems-to-take-the-play-from\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_n5oaidjstD1rrwkloo1_500.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_n5oaidjstD1rrwkloo1_500.jpg?resize=329%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_n5oaidjstD1rrwkloo1_500.jpg?resize=329%2C500&amp;ssl=1 329w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_n5oaidjstD1rrwkloo1_500.jpg?resize=66%2C100&amp;ssl=1 66w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_n5oaidjstD1rrwkloo1_500.jpg?w=441&amp;ssl=1 441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>&#8220;Indeed, Noon seems to take the \u201cplay\u201d from literary play and the \u201cgame\u201d from writing game and whorl the words into uniquely distilled forms. This strategy is not only compelled by the desire to experiment; that is, Noon asks in the \u201cPost Futurism Manifesto,\u201d \u201ccan\u2019t we writers have some fun as well?\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Noon\u2019s writing games are metaphorical exercises that give him license to play with text and surprise himself. The approach has led to some of the most memorable weird fiction I\u2019ve ever read.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electronicbookreview.com\/thread\/electropoetics\/postfuturist\">&#8220;You are cordially invited to a \/ CHEMICAL WEDDING&#8221;: Metamorphiction and Experimentation in Jeff Noon\u2019s Cobralingus | Electronic Book Review<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Indeed, Noon seems to take the \u201cplay\u201d from literary play and the \u201cgame\u201d from writing game and whorl the words into uniquely distilled forms. This strategy is not only compelled by the desire to experiment; that is, Noon asks in the \u201cPost Futurism Manifesto,\u201d \u201ccan\u2019t we writers have some fun as well?\u201d&#8221; Noon\u2019s writing games &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/05\/16\/indeed-noon-seems-to-take-the-play-from\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}