{"id":831,"date":"2005-03-13T17:40:30","date_gmt":"2005-03-13T21:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=831"},"modified":"2005-03-13T17:40:30","modified_gmt":"2005-03-13T21:40:30","slug":"michael-winter-the-big-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"Michael Winter: The Big Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Question is not, he said, were you loved. Or did you love. Or did you love yourself. Or did you allow love to move you, though that&#8217;s a big one. Move you. The question, Rockwell, is did you get to be who you are. And if not, then why. What, my friend, is the big why. (p. 372)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"THE BIG WHY\" href=\"http:\/\/mhardywinter.blogspot.com\/\">The Big Why<\/a> is a novel by Michael Winter about Rockwell Kent&#8217;s stay in Newfoundland during the war. It is well written, though I don&#8217;t understand why Winter doesn&#8217;t like certain types of punctuation. There is a thread about Newfoundland and the brutal marine life that is terrific (or terrifying) and a thread about Rockwell Kent (no relation) and his relationships with women. From the sounds of it, Rockwell Kent was a prick when it came to women (and one suspects that&#8217;s what Winter likes about him), but the narration by Kent doesn&#8217;t quite match the character described as if Winter were trying to soften Kent by letting a more senstive 1990s Kent narrate a 1940s arrogant artist.<br \/>\nThe philosophical reflections, however, make this discrepancy worth it &#8230; are we who we are?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rockkent.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/notes\/images\/rockkent.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"95\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\" hspace=\"5\" \/><br \/>\nFor more on Kent, see the <a title=\"Rockwell Kent Gallery and Collection, Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York\" href=\"http:\/\/clubs.plattsburgh.edu\/museum\/rkent1.htm\">Rockwell Kent Gallery and Collection, Plattsburgh<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Question is not, he said, were you loved. Or did you love. Or did you love yourself. Or did you allow love to move you, though that&#8217;s a big one. Move you. The question, Rockwell, is did you get to be who you are. And if not, then why. What, my friend, is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=831\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michael Winter: The Big Why<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}