{"id":101632,"date":"2016-08-18T09:05:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T13:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=101632"},"modified":"2016-08-18T10:04:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T14:04:36","slug":"baronial-colonials-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/18\/baronial-colonials-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Baronial Colonials, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_101633\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/28402956074_02e04c3797_c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101633\" class=\"wp-image-101633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/28402956074_02e04c3797_c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/28402956074_02e04c3797_c.jpg 642w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/28402956074_02e04c3797_c-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The alligator insignia of \u201cThe Calcutta Pococurante Society.\u201d Image via the\u00a0<em>Public Domain Review<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019ve never understood the appeal of mixed martial arts\u2014too often it features, as Matthew Shen Goodman puts it, \u201can unending barrage of increasingly indistinguishable bald men and cornrowed women with terrible tattoos throwing the same one-two into a low kick and wrestle-fucking each other into the fence.\u201d But maybe we\u2019re watching it for the storytelling? Or maybe not: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/online-only\/online-only\/ground-and-pound\/\">MMA\u2019s drama tends to be somewhat undercooked and boring, or terrifying and repulsive<\/a>: incidents of domestic violence; hyping fights with xenophobic slurs (please, Conor and Joanna, stop telling your Brazilian opponents to go back to the jungle or that you\u2019ll ransack their villages on horseback) or intense narratives about face-punching for Jesus\/America\/family legacy. There are a few fighters who thrive on being death spirits personified (Robbie Lawler, for example, who soberly told a broadcaster he takes people\u2019s\u00a0<em>souls\u00a0<\/em>on Atlanta local television), but an actual story is often lacking, as are characters. This makes for difficult viewing, given how many fights there are, and the fact that you usually have to pay to watch, as well as the time spent sitting through ads for MetroPCS and new appetizers at Buffalo Wild Wings.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Everyone knows that Netflix\u2019s <em>Stranger Things<\/em> pays homage to eighties-era horror and sci-fi, but if you want to be a real asshole at the next party you go to, you can insist that its roots go much, much deeper, back to Lovecraft and an earlier tradition of speculative fiction: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-infinite-nostalgia-of-stranger-things\">The idea\u2014central to <em>Stranger Things<\/em>\u2014that the unnatural is weirder, more widespread, and therefore scarier than the state of nature dates back at least to 1927<\/a>, when H. P. Lovecraft published a short story called \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hplovecraft.com\/writings\/texts\/fiction\/cs.aspx\">The Colour Out of Space<\/a>.\u2019 It\u2019s about a meteor that lands on a farm in rural Massachusetts. A strange life-form is buried within the meteor, and it soon leaches into the soil. The farm\u2019s plants begin to glow in shades \u2018unlike any known colors of the normal spectrum.\u2019 The animals, too, begin to move in unnatural ways. Eventually, the life-form takes a concrete shape. It begins to move about, stalking the farmer and his family and turning their bodies into a kind of living ash. Of the meteor, the narrator concludes, \u2018It was nothing of the earth, but a piece of the great outside.\u2019 \u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Before fat shaming was a thing, there was Roald Dahl, peppering his books with gluttons and the many objects of their gluttony. As Annalisa Quinn writes, food in Dahl\u2019s work is uniquely fraught: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/nightlight\/2016\/08\/17\/the_wondrous_and_awful_power_of_roald_dahl_s_extravagant_feasts.html\">If you look closely, the danger inherent in food is everywhere<\/a>. There\u2019s the dinner party in \u2018Taste,\u2019 Dahl\u2019s chilling adult short story in which the host bets his gourmand guest that he won\u2019t guess the provenance of the wine (the prize: his daughter); the chocolate Xanadu of Willy Wonka, where handling food the wrong way subjects you to contortions and tortures; and the dripping, voluptuous peach that kills James\u2019 aunts. He entices us and then shows us what happens if we succumb: derision, loss of bodily autonomy, death.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Calcutta in the early nineteenth century was full of British fat cats cooling their heels in various exotic locales. Joshua Ehrlich looks at 1833\u2019s <em>Calcutta Quarterly Magazine<\/em>, which includes a bizarre supplement mocking a fictitious group called the \u201cCalcutta Pococurante Society\u201d for its indulgent ways: \u201cThe members\u2019 wandering dinner chat, peppered with lines of poetry and elements of the occult, is not the kind of thing modern readers are used to seeing in print. Nor is it obvious why past readers should have wanted to \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/2016\/08\/17\/the-calcutta-pococurante-society-public-and-private-in-indias-age-of-reform\/?utm_content=buffer0187e&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">It is striking, meanwhile, how little the text is concerned with India or Indians<\/a> \u2026 The aloofness of the British transplants, their dislocation from their surroundings, seems part of the satire \u2026 At the Society\u2019s dinner, even local ingredients are rendered in French on the menu. The members discuss almost exclusively Western politics, philosophy, and literature. On the rare occasions when the east enters the scene, it does so obliquely and fancifully, for instance in the decoration of the Society\u2019s meeting place: \u2018<em>a Turkish tent of white silk \u2026 Ottomans of pale Blue and Gold \u2026 a profusion of Purple Velvet drapery<\/em>.\u2019 The everyday experience of life in India is relegated to outside the tent-flaps.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>While we\u2019re on the British empire: Zimbabwe\u2019s Harare City Library boasts a new Doris Lessing Special Collection, commemorating the thirty-five hundred\u00a0books she gave to the library after her death. Lessing had a special history with the place, as Percy Zvomuya writes: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/08\/17\/percy-zvomuya\/doris-lessing-and-zimbabwe\/\">Lessing lived in Southern Rhodesia between 1925 (when she was six) and 1949<\/a> \u2026 The independent Zimbabwe that Lessing returned to in the 1980s was a different country from the Southern Rhodesia she left in 1949, which had declared her a \u2018prohibited immigrant\u2019 when she went back in 1956. She described it as an \u2018awful place\u2019 in one interview. \u2018Only someone who\u2019s lived in these dreadful colonial places will understand why. They are so dead and narrow and stultifying. If you are living in that kind of society where a small number of people are oppressing a great many, they become obsessed by the fact, and they talk about nothing else, day and night. And I always think of Goethe, who said, if you are going to keep a man down in the ditch, you are going to have to get into the ditch with him.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never understood the appeal of mixed martial arts\u2014too often it features, as Matthew Shen Goodman puts it, \u201can unending barrage of increasingly indistinguishable bald men and cornrowed women with terrible tattoos throwing the same one-two into a low kick and wrestle-fucking each other into the fence.\u201d But maybe we\u2019re watching it for the storytelling? 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