{"id":115052,"date":"2022-09-19T16:31:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T21:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=115052"},"modified":"2022-09-19T16:32:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T21:32:04","slug":"dorothy-parkers-symptom-recital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=115052","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Parker\u2019s Symptom Recital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=115052\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=115052\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-115053 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dorothy-Parker-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dorothy-Parker-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dorothy-Parker.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Karen Beishuizen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I do not like my state of mind;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I\u2019m bitter, querulous, unkind.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I hate my legs, I hate my hands,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I do not yearn for lovelier lands.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I dread the dawn\u2019s recurrent light;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I hate to go to bed at night.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I snoot at simple, earnest folk.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I cannot take the gentlest joke.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I find no peace in paint or type.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>My world is but a lot of tripe.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I\u2019m disillusioned, empty-breasted.<!--more--><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>For what I think, I\u2019d be arrested.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I am not sick, I am not well.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>My quondam dreams are shot to hell.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>My soul is crushed, my spirit sore;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I do not like me any more.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I cavil, quarrel, grumble, grouse.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I ponder on the narrow house.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I shudder at the thought of men\u2026.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I\u2019m due to fall in love again.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Karen Beishuizen I do not like my state of mind; I\u2019m bitter, querulous, unkind. I hate my legs, I hate my hands, I do not yearn for lovelier lands. I dread the dawn\u2019s recurrent light; I hate to go to bed at night. I snoot at simple, earnest folk. I cannot take the gentlest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28132],"tags":[29633],"class_list":["post-115052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns-by-karen-beishuizen","tag-dorothy-parkers-symptom-recital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115052"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}