“When shall the artist assume his proper situation in society\u00e2\u20ac\u201d in a society of thinking beings? How long shall he be enslaved? How long shall mind succumb to the grossest materiality? How long shall the veriest vermin of the Earth, who crawl around the altar of Mammon, be more esteemed of men than they, the gifted ministers to those exalted emotions which link us with the mysteries of Heaven?” -Edgar Allan Poe, 1836<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“When shall the artist assume his proper situation in society\u00e2\u20ac\u201d in a society of thinking beings? How long shall he be enslaved? How long shall mind succumb to the grossest materiality? How long shall the veriest vermin of the Earth, who crawl around the altar of Mammon, be more esteemed of men than they, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-Mg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":552,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=552","url_meta":{"origin":2992,"position":0},"title":"Ask and ye shall receive… (Immigration edition)","date":"5\/4\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"As promised, BB posted her photos of the immigration rally that paraded past our building. 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Come with me, then, And we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll leave it far and far away\u00e2\u20ac\u201d (Only you and I, understand!) 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