{"id":287,"date":"2012-02-10T10:01:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T10:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/?p=287"},"modified":"2012-02-10T10:01:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T10:01:56","slug":"pangloss-apothecary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/2012\/02\/pangloss-apothecary\/","title":{"rendered":"Pangloss&#8217; Apothecary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>by Gord Sellar<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">He thinks of stories, of reason and rhyme:<br \/>\nthey circle around in his brain.<br \/>\nHe sees the wretched faces of people<br \/>\nreturning again and again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>CHORUS:<br \/>\n<\/em><em>What\u2019s happened to his philosophy?<br \/>\n<\/em><em>The best of all possible worlds, this was.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>What\u2019s happened to all his reasoned conviction<br \/>\n<\/em><em>In the best of all possible worlds?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Some can\u2019t abide the peace of it,<br \/>\nthis cultivated land.<br \/>\nThe things between what\u2019s thought and seen<br \/>\ncan turn your will to sand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The others have tired of playing the game of<br \/>\nmy sorrow\u2019s bigger than yours;<br \/>\nRascals turned gentlemen, now smile taking tea<br \/>\nwith reformed bordello-whores.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>CHORUS:<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s happened to his philosophy\u2026 (etc.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Two capsules a day, morning and night<br \/>\nto take the edge off, he\u2019s told.<br \/>\nThere is more light, more brightness, yes,<br \/>\nbut also, he fears, less world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">But the rosy haze is back, he smiles,<br \/>\nsyphilitic once more and falling apart,<br \/>\nand Pangloss praises in syllogism<br \/>\nhis apothecary\u2019s art.<br \/>\nYes, Pangloss praises in syllogism<br \/>\nhis apothecary\u2019s art.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><em>&#8212; Jeonju, 2004.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Another song written for Dabang Band that never got recorded, but which I like the lyrics for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gord Sellar He thinks of stories, of reason and rhyme: they circle around in his brain. He sees the wretched faces of people returning again and again. CHORUS: What\u2019s happened to his philosophy? The best of all possible worlds, this was. What\u2019s happened to all his reasoned conviction In the best of all possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xIep-4D","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}