the last time I talked about this<\/a> I’ve revised my plan a little. At that time I was planning six chapters (once it was more — originally I envisioned twelve chapters, one for each month of the year; I abandoned that in favor of a thematic organization). Now I’ve decided to take out the chapter on literature, and instead I’m interspersing the literature stuff throughout the other chapters.<\/p>\nSo basically I’m writing five essays, on the following topics: economics and globalism; emerging roles for women; a kind of oddball chapter that’s half about climate and half about the visual arts (and only half done); a chapter on science, superstition, and esoteric knowledge; and a chapter on the movement of peoples: slavery, diasporism, tourism. The fourth chapter, which is the one I’m getting near to completing (in draft) now, is the longest — it will probably end up close to sixty pages.<\/p>\n
The frontispiece to the table of contents, shown here, which is a detail from a Persian translation of a Hindu epic, is mainly there because I like it (that, and it’s from 1616). I hope by the time I’m done to have some more reasons for it being there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3662,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions\/3662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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