{"id":101449,"date":"2016-08-12T09:31:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T13:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=101449"},"modified":"2016-08-12T10:26:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T14:26:02","slug":"revere-the-fig-pity-the-fig-wasp-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/12\/revere-the-fig-pity-the-fig-wasp-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Revere the Fig, Pity the Fig Wasp, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_101452\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/syrupoffigs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101452\" class=\"wp-image-101452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/syrupoffigs.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/syrupoffigs.jpg 1499w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/syrupoffigs-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/syrupoffigs-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/syrupoffigs-1024x732.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a package of California Fig Syrup Company\u2019s \u201cSyrup of Figs\u201d laxative.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Friends, the great march of progress continues apace. The word <em>bawbag<\/em>\u2014\u201ca Scots word meaning scrotum, in Scots vernacular a term of endearment but in English could be taken as an insult\u201d\u2014has been added to the <em>Macmillan Open Dictionary<\/em>. Now the official record will never forget the rich, protean history of this fine word: \u2018<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/aug\/11\/bawbag-makes-very-informal-appearance-in-dictionary-donald-trump\">Bawbag<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/aug\/11\/bawbag-makes-very-informal-appearance-in-dictionary-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\"> made the headlines five years ago when hurricane force winds hit Scotland in a storm dubbed Hurricane Bawbag by Twitter users<\/a>\u2014a name which quickly went viral. It was also one of the many insults leveled at the US Republican party\u2019s presidential candidate when he arrived in Scotland earlier this summer\u2014the <em>Daily Record <\/em>reporting that anti-Trump protestors held up signs reading \u2018Trump is a bawbag.\u2019 The Ukip leader Nigel Farage was met with cries of \u2018Nigel, you\u2019re a bawbag, Nigel you\u2019re a bawbag, na, na, na, hey!\u2019\u00a0in Edinburgh three years ago.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I eat figs as I eat most things\u2014hell-bent on my own delectation, and totally ignorant of the food\u2019s history or provenance. Ben Crair has taught me the ancient ways of the fig, though, in all their beauty and tragedy: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/elements\/love-the-fig\" target=\"_blank\">Because a fig is actually a ball of flowers, it requires pollination, but because the flowers are sealed, not just any bug can crawl inside<\/a>. That task belongs to a minuscule insect known as the fig wasp, whose life cycle is intertwined with the fig\u2019s. Mother wasps lay their eggs in an unripe fig. After their offspring hatch and mature, the males mate and then chew a tunnel to the surface, dying when their task is complete. The females follow and take flight, riding the winds until they smell another fig tree \u2026 When the insects discover the right specimen, they go inside and deposit the pollen from their birthplace. Then the females lay new eggs, and the cycle begins again. For the wasp mother, however, devotion to the fig plant soon turns tragic. A fig\u2019s entranceway is booby-trapped to destroy her wings, so that she can never visit another plant. When you eat a dried fig, you\u2019re probably chewing fig-wasp mummies, too.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A. S. Hamrah notices a disturbing trend in new movies: British people are now cast in record numbers as Americans. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/issue-26\/reviews\/this-quiet-place-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">Formerly assigned parts as villainous Romans and Nazis, British actors now populate American films as the worst America has to offer, and sometimes as exemplars of the white working class<\/a>. What American demons are being exorcised by this kind of casting, and what does it say about how Hollywood views the white underclass that it thinks <small>RADA<\/small>-trained actors are best at playing them? At the same time, British actors also portray our greatest heroes, from Abraham Lincoln to Superman. All these types and historical figures inhabit a Shakespearean Disneyland in which America is an idea for export, best brought to cinematic life by trained specialists in a brand of good-versus-evil drama set in fictionalized hinterlands or the glorious past.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In the media, to call a piece of writing \u201cacademic\u201d is to condemn it in the worst terms. David Wolf and Jo Livingstone discuss the eroding reputation of professorial prose: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theawl.com\/can-the-academic-write-part-i-24fdaf8bf422#.8fm6jgk99\" target=\"_blank\">People talk about \u2018good\u2019 and \u2018bad\u2019 writing as if it\u2019s obvious what they are<\/a> \u2026 In a journalistic context, extremely formal and exhaustive academic writing can come across as so pretentious and ridiculous when, in fact, there\u2019s a lovely humbleness to it. The academic is saying, \u2018Look! I\u2019ve acknowledged all these people that have thought really hard about this\u2019 \u2026 But, I think, one way in which academics writing for journalistic audiences can go wrong is not appreciating that the world which you are writing for is completely different \u2026 It\u2019s not the job of the readers of\u00a0the<em>\u00a0Guardian,\u00a0<\/em>say, to read you. They\u2019re either going to read you because they\u2019re interested, or they think it\u2019s really important, or they\u2019ll do it for pleasure or entertainment, but they\u2019re not doing it out of any sense of duty.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The National Library of France has digitized the\u00a01588 manuscript\u00a0of <a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k11718168\/f7.item.r=\" target=\"_blank\">Montaigne\u2019s seminal\u00a0<em>Essays<\/em><\/a>. It is, yes, in French. But if you can jump over that hurdle, you\u2019ll see that Montaigne\u2019s handwritten annotations (<em>allongeails<\/em>) are intact here. (Previously, the manuscript lived for many centuries in a convent in Bordeaux.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, the great march of progress continues apace. The word bawbag\u2014\u201ca Scots word meaning scrotum, in Scots vernacular a term of endearment but in English could be taken as an insult\u201d\u2014has been added to the Macmillan Open Dictionary. Now the official record will never forget the rich, protean history of this fine word: \u2018Bawbag made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[4387,19261,23902,12691,23905,364,23904,23903,1316,3413,3072,2393,75],"class_list":["post-101449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-academia","tag-actors","tag-bawbag","tag-biology","tag-british-actors","tag-essays","tag-fig-wasps","tag-figs","tag-montaigne","tag-scotland","tag-slang","tag-words","tag-writing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Figs Have All the Answers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This and more in today\u2019s roundup.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/12\/revere-the-fig-pity-the-fig-wasp-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Revere the Fig, Pity the Fig Wasp, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"August 12, 2016 \u2013 Friends, the great march of progress continues apace. 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