{"id":79,"date":"2026-05-06T02:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twistyroads.net\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2026-05-12T00:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:58:16","slug":"a-world-colored-in-blue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/twistyroads.net\/?page_id=79","title":{"rendered":"A World Colored in Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">By Christopher Humphrey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This was something of a concept piece written back in university. The aim was write something that felt reminiscent of Renaissance literature. Literature of this era could vary in terms of structure and even spelling, which has been purposefully replicated here. Margaret Cavendish&#8217;s <em>The Blazing World<\/em> was used as the primary inspiration for this particular work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>To Myself, On My New Take On An Old Blazing-World<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Since days of Yore past, and found in most Arts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Is Imitation, so simply it starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">I Admit to the Crime I did Commit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Hers is a \u201cWorld of Nothing, but pure Wit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">From tongues of Philosophers never made,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Still to-day a Soul in doubt shall be Swayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Who am I, to Mimic such stunning Prose,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Have I the right to Reinvent a Rose?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">O why should I dread my own creation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">When one can only show admiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">With her work unmatched, who could gain such Ire<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">When Imitation can bring lovely Fire?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">CHRISTOPHER HUMPHREY.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Christopher Humphrey This was something of a concept piece written back in university. The aim was write something that felt reminiscent of Renaissance literature. Literature of this era could vary in terms of structure and even spelling, which has been purposefully replicated here. Margaret Cavendish&#8217;s The Blazing World was used as the primary inspiration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistyroads.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistyroads.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistyroads.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistyroads.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistyroads.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/twistyroads.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/twistyroads.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistyroads.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}