{"id":586,"date":"2002-11-28T01:08:31","date_gmt":"2002-11-28T09:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=586"},"modified":"2017-11-02T20:14:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T04:14:24","slug":"1897-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"1897-1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teller doesn&#8217;t talk, but he <a href=http:\/\/www.pennandteller.com\/03\/coolstuff\/tellersarticles.html>writes<\/a>.  His story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/1997\/11\/a-memory-of-the-nineteen-nineties\/376995\/\">A Memory of the Nineteen-Nineties<\/a>, a sequel to Max Beerbohm&#8217;s &#8220;Enoch Soames&#8221; (which I read sometime in the Eighties), almost makes me wish I&#8217;d thought of making the same pilgrimage.<\/p>\n<p>Teller&#8217;s account is now behind the subscribers-only gate, so I&#8217;ll summarize.  Enoch Soames &#8220;was&#8221; a minor writer who sold his soul for an opportunity to see what his reputation would be after a hundred years.  The Devil brought Soames to the British Library on a specified date in 1997, then returned him to his friends in 1897.  Teller (and a few others, independently) went to the Library on that date to see if anything would happen.  Something did.<\/p>\n<p>Soames reported that everyone in 1997 wore numbered yellow jumpsuits, if memory serves; but Teller did not touch on that point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teller doesn&#8217;t talk, but he writes. His story A Memory of the Nineteen-Nineties, a sequel to Max Beerbohm&#8217;s &#8220;Enoch Soames&#8221; (which I read sometime in the Eighties), almost makes me wish I&#8217;d thought of making the same pilgrimage. Teller&#8217;s account &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=586\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-prose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3826,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/3826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}