{"id":101119,"date":"2016-08-03T09:15:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T13:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=101119"},"modified":"2016-08-03T10:22:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T14:22:49","slug":"weltschmerz-is-an-egg-yolk-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/03\/weltschmerz-is-an-egg-yolk-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Weltschmerz Is an Egg Yolk, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_101120\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gudetama.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101120\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101120\" class=\"wp-image-101120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gudetama.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gudetama.png 1258w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gudetama-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gudetama-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gudetama-1024x677.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gudetama, depressed.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>In the early sixties, the <em>London Review of Books<\/em>\u2019 Mary-Kay Wilmers was working as a secretary at Faber, where one of her superiors was T. S. Eliot. His managerial style left something to be desired, she writes: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v38\/n16\/mary-kay-wilmers\/subjective-correlative\">I had some bad moments with him. I hadn\u2019t been there more than a few months when he caught me looking out of the window onto Russell Square. I had my back both to my colleagues and to the door, and I was saying: \u2018Look at all those lucky people in Russell Square doing bugger all.\u2019<\/a> My colleagues were silent and when I turned round I realized why: Eliot had come into the room and was glowering at me. I might as well have been tearing at the grapes with murderous paws. After I\u2019d graduated to blurb-writing he showed all the directors a blurb I\u2019d written, saying: \u2018Surely we can\u2019t publish this.\u2019 It was for Ann Jellicoe\u2019s play\u00a0<em>The Knack\u00a0<\/em>and I\u2019d said that the knack in question was the knack of getting girls into bed. Once, early on, I pointed out a discrepancy between two printings of one of his early poems\u2014I can\u2019t remember which. I was quite proud of myself. He said it didn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>While we\u2019re on Faber\u2014in Eliot\u2019s day, they declined to publish Basil Bunting\u2019s poems. But now they\u2019ve put out a long-awaited critical edition of his work, which corrects, as Christopher Spaide says, a decades-long oversight on the publishers\u2019 part: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-improbable-life-and-prescient-poetry-of-basil-bunting\" target=\"_blank\">Bunting\u2019s arrival at Faber comes with a certain poetic justice: after enduring a stinging rejection by Eliot, the former Faber editor, in his lifetime, he has now been published alongside scholarly editions of Eliot\u2019s work, and he looks every bit the major British poet<\/a>. The editor of the new edition is Don Share, a poet and the editor of\u00a0<em>Poetry <\/em>magazine. Over the phone, Share suggested that Bunting \u2018is more important to us, and even more legible to us, now than he has been, because he was right about so many things early on.\u2019 Specifically, Share brought up Bunting\u2019s reliance on performance (\u2018He was kind of a proto-performance poet\u2019), his gratitude to small presses, and his grounding of global concerns in a local community.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>One of many reasons that Japan is culturally superior to the U.S.: its citizens are presently in the thrall of an existentially despairing egg yolk. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2016-07-31\/one-japan-s-most-popular-mascots-egg-crippling-depression\">Meet Gudetama, the anthropomorphic embodiment of severe depression. Gudetama is a cartoon egg yolk that feels existence is almost unbearable<\/a>. It shivers with sadness. It clings to a strip of bacon as a security blanket. Rather than engage in society, it jams its face into an eggshell and mutters the words, \u2018Cold world. What can we do about it?\u2019 \u2026 How did a sad little egg win so many Japanese hearts? Why did a billion-dollar corporation decide to market a character embodying depression? And what does Gudetama\u2019s appeal reveal about Japan\u2019s culture?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Boyd McDonald had a passion, and that passion was publishing one of the best fucking gay-sex magazines ever to see a printing press: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/issue-25\/reviews\/straight-to-hell\/\">He found his calling in the early 1970s after he got sober, dropped out of straight life, holed up in a New York City SRO, and began publishing the zine\u00a0<em>Straight to Hell<\/em>, a compendium of real-life gay-sex stories that is still being published today, more than twenty years after his death<\/a>. Though\u00a0<em>Straight to Hell\u00a0<\/em>was mainly composed of stories sent in by anonymous contributors, it was always inflected with McDonald\u2019s own dexterous wit, radical politics, and unashamed obsession with the details of sex.\u00a0<em>Straight to Hell\u00a0<\/em>painted a world full of glory holes, where around every corner men were having every kind of sex. A reader once called it both \u2018fantastic jerk-off material &amp; consciousness-raising stuff.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Then, on the other hand, there are teens. As if to take a perverse pride in the fact that nothing is sacred in this world, that no norm can go unchallenged, today\u2019s teens have decided they no longer enjoy sex. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/social-issues\/there-isnt-really-anything-magical-about-it-why-more-millennials-are-putting-off-sex\/2016\/08\/02\/e7b73d6e-37f4-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html\">Noah Patterson, eighteen, likes to sit in front of several screens simultaneously: a work project, a YouTube clip, a video game<\/a>. To shut it all down for a date or even a one-night stand seems like a waste. \u2018For an average date, you\u2019re going to spend at least two hours, and in that two hours I won\u2019t be doing something I enjoy,\u2019 he said \u2026 He has never had sex, although he likes porn. \u2018I\u2019d rather be watching YouTube videos and making money.\u2019 Sex, he said, is \u2018not going to be something people ask you for on your r\u00e9sum\u00e9.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early sixties, the London Review of Books\u2019 Mary-Kay Wilmers was working as a secretary at Faber, where one of her superiors was T. S. Eliot. His managerial style left something to be desired, she writes: \u201cI had some bad moments with him. 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