{"id":2379,"date":"2012-04-04T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/04\/contemplating-hell-by-bertolt-brecht\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:53:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:53:50","slug":"contemplating-hell-by-bertolt-brecht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/04\/contemplating-hell-by-bertolt-brecht\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2379 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/04\/contemplating-hell-by-bertolt-brecht\/attachment\/2380\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m1wr9nmIUe1r3qmd1o1_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>Contemplating Hell<\/strong><br \/>by Bertolt Brecht<\/p>\n<p>Contemplating Hell, as I once heard it,\u00a0<br \/>My brother Shelley found it to be a place\u00a0<br \/>Much like the city of London. I,\u00a0<br \/>Who do not live in London, but in Los Angeles,<br \/>Find, contemplating Hell, that it\u00a0<br \/>Must be even more like Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also in Hell,\u00a0<br \/>I do not doubt it, there exist these opulent gardens\u00a0<br \/>With flowers as large as trees, wilting, of course,\u00a0<br \/>Very quickly, if they are not watered with very expensive water. And fruit markets<br \/>With great leaps of fruit, which nonetheless\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Possess neither scent nor taste. And endless trains of autos,\u00a0<br \/>Lighter than their own shadows, swifter than\u00a0<br \/>Foolish thoughts, shimmering vehicles, in which\u00a0<br \/>Rosy people, coming from nowhere, go nowhere.\u00a0<br \/>And houses, designed for happiness, standing empty,\u00a0<br \/>Even when inhabited.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even the houses in Hell are not all ugly.\u00a0<br \/>But concern about being thrown into the street\u00a0<br \/>Consumes the inhabitants of the villas no less\u00a0<br \/>Than the inhabitants of the barracks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bertolt_Brecht\" target=\"_blank\">Bertolt Brecht<\/a> is well-represented in the library and archives of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leo Baeck Institute<\/a>, through his relationships with Jewish colleagues in the literary world, as well as personal friendships with Jewish individuals both in Germany and in the German-speaking exile community in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><em>Submitted by Michael Simonson, Leo Baeck Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contemplating Hellby Bertolt Brecht Contemplating Hell, as I once heard it,\u00a0My brother Shelley found it to be a place\u00a0Much like the city of London. I,\u00a0Who do not live in London, but in Los Angeles,Find, contemplating Hell, that it\u00a0Must be even more like Los Angeles.\u00a0 Also in Hell,\u00a0I do not doubt it, there exist these opulent gardens\u00a0With flowers as large as trees, wilting, of course,\u00a0Very&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1232,45,962],"class_list":["post-2379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-bertolt-brecht","tag-lbi-collections","tag-national-poetry-month","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}