{"id":674,"date":"2007-10-30T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2007-10-30T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T22:35:00","slug":"dina-rabinovitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/10\/dina-rabinovitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Dina Rabinovitch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> try to keep away from people writing about dying. It\u2019s one of those healthy natural defence mechanisms – like cruelty – that work best when you\u2019re young and vigorous. But like bone and tooth enamel, it weakens over time. And I am weak.

So when I saw the notice<\/a> about the death of Dina Rabinovitch<\/a>, whose columns I had read, and whose book<\/a> is on the reading list<\/a> for one of our new programmes, I had to look<\/a>. That was her blog. It will cost you tears.<\/p>\n

When I was a kid it was sex we were curious about, not death. I used to walk merrily to school every day past a memento mori<\/a>: <\/p>\n

All ye who do this way pass by
Remember Death, for you must die;
As you are now, so once was I,
And as I am, so must you be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rabinovitch\u2019s writing reminded me of a few lines from Ted Hughes<\/span><\/a>, quoted in a review, about how we are all still kids inside: <\/p>\n

At every moment, behind the most efficient seeming adult exterior, the whole world of the person\u2019s childhood is being carefully held like a glass of water bulging above the brim.<\/p>\n

And in fact, that child is the only real thing in them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The only real thing. Stay real.
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I try to keep away from people writing about dying. It\u2019s one of those healthy natural defence mechanisms – like cruelty – that work best when you\u2019re young and vigorous. But like bone and tooth enamel, it weakens over time. And I am weak.So when I saw the notice about the death of Dina Rabinovitch, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}