{"id":16062,"date":"2010-09-01T16:54:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T20:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=16062"},"modified":"2010-09-01T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T20:54:12","slug":"national-post-the-overrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/09\/01\/national-post-the-overrated\/","title":{"rendered":"National Post: &#8220;The Overrated&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T5qalNX5G94<\/p>\n<p><em>Elaine in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_English_Patient_%28Seinfeld%29\" target=\"_blank\">episode of <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_English_Patient_%28Seinfeld%29\" target=\"_blank\">Seinfeld<\/a> <em>where she hates<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_English_Patient_%28film%29\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_English_Patient_%28film%29\" target=\"_blank\">The English Patient<\/a><em> but must see it multiple times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it, here&#8217;s the <em>National Post&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/arts.nationalpost.com\/2010\/08\/24\/10-overrated-canadian-authors\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/arts.nationalpost.com\/2010\/08\/24\/10-overrated-canadian-authors\/\" target=\"_blank\">ten most overrated Canadian authors<\/a> (yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Ondaatje\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Ondaatje<\/a> is in there).<\/p>\n<p>For entertainment purposes only.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, Michael Ondaatje&#8217;s lovely poem, &#8220;The Cinnamon Peeler&#8221; (with video), after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<pre>If I were a cinnamon peeler\nI would ride your bed\nAnd leave the yellow bark dust\nOn your pillow.\n\nYour breasts and shoulders would reek\nYou could never walk through markets\nwithout the profession of my fingers\nfloating over you. The blind would\nstumble certain of whom they approached\nthough you might bathe\nunder rain gutters, monsoon.\n\nHere on the upper thigh\nat this smooth pasture\nneighbour to you hair\nor the crease\nthat cuts your back. This ankle.\nYou will be known among strangers\nas the cinnamon peeler's wife.\n\nI could hardly glance at you\nbefore marriage\nnever touch you\n--your keen nosed mother, your rough brothers.\nI buried my hands\nin saffron, disguised them\nover smoking tar,\nhelped the honey gatherers...\n\nWhen we swam once\nI touched you in the water\nand our bodies remained free,\nyou could hold me and be blind of smell.\nyou climbed the bank and said\n\nthis is how you touch other women\nthe grass cutter's wife, the lime burner's daughter.\nAnd you searched your arms\nfor the missing perfume\n\nand knew\n\nwhat good is it\nto be the lime burner's daughter\nleft with no trace\nas if not spoken to in the act of love\nas if wounded without the pleasure of a scar.\n\nYou touched\nyour belly to my hands\nin the dry air and said\nI am the cinnamon\nPeeler's wife. Smell me.<\/pre>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w_MWKN1_Uac<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Cinnamon Peeler&#8217;s Wife,&#8221; with text<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T5qalNX5G94 Elaine in the episode of Seinfeld where she hates The English Patient but must see it multiple times. In case you missed it, here&#8217;s the National Post&#8217;s ten most overrated Canadian authors (yes, Michael Ondaatje is in there). For entertainment purposes only. 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