{"id":103739,"date":"2016-10-17T08:52:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T12:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=103739"},"modified":"2016-10-17T14:31:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T18:31:23","slug":"nice-soak-office-bathtub-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/17\/nice-soak-office-bathtub-news\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nice Soak in the Office Bathtub, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_103740\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/016_salve_mater.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103740\" class=\"wp-image-103740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/016_salve_mater.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Relax: bathe at work.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>When one thinks of rugged outdoorspersons, one\u2019s mind does not usually summon Simone de Beauvoir. But it turns out Beauvoir was an avid hiker, and her writing about the activity stands in powerful contrast to the \u201cwilderness memoirs\u201d of more recent years. Emily Witt writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/13\/t-magazine\/entertainment\/simone-de-beauvoir-hiking-alps.html?mtrref=t.co\" target=\"_blank\">Pages of her memoirs are taken up with descriptions of the hikes she took in her twenties and thirties: in the Maritime Alps, the Haute-Loire, in Brittany, in the Jura, in Auvergne, in the Midi<\/a>. Since the publication of Cheryl Strayed\u2019s <em>Wild<\/em> or even Robyn Davidson\u2019s <em>Tracks<\/em>, it has become commonplace to see the solo excursion in the wilderness as a possible experience of feminine catharsis. Beauvoir abhorred sentimentalism in her writing and seemed constitutionally incapable of contriving a sudden epiphany after cresting a peak, but it turns out that in addition to all of her philosophical contributions she is a forgotten pioneer of this genre of memoir \u2026 Beauvoir hiked alone \u2026 She saw her colleagues\u2019 warnings that she would get raped as \u2018a spinsterish obsession,\u2019 and wrote, \u2018I had no intention of making my life a bore with precautions of this sort.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in productivity concepts: your start-up office might have standing desks, exercise balls, a Ping-Pong table, and a formidable organic pantry, but none of it means shit without a bathtub. Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros., credits his imaginative success to Nintendo\u2019s tub, and he makes a strong argument: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/10\/miyamoto-donkey-kong-secrets\" target=\"_blank\">Thank goodness we had a company bathtub!<\/a> \u2026 At that time, our office was in Tobakaido, which also housed the hanafuda [playing-card] factory \u2026 There was a water boiler that was used to make the hanafuda, and the water from this boiler was also used for a bathtub. The employees making the hanafuda could wash their sweat away in the bath after work, and at night when nobody was around, you could hang out there for a long time. It totally saved me \u2026 It was really effective at letting me put my ideas in order.\u201d (Reader: if you\u2019re interested in arranging for a claw-foot tub to be installed in the offices of <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, please be in touch.)\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In which Donald Fagen, of Steely Dan fame, recalls the nuclear-fallout propaganda of his youth: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/history\/2016\/10\/ed_sullivan_a_short_vision_and_how_nuclear_fears_fueled_the_counterculture.html\" target=\"_blank\">By the time I was twelve or so, I\u2019d become a preteen doomsday prepper<\/a>. I\u2019d wake up in the morning, look out the window and imagine a colossal mushroom cloud blooming on the horizon. I developed an alter ego, a rugged loner with a plan for survival. I bought one of those Army surplus utility belts and armed myself with a gravity knife, different size screwdrivers, an Allen wrench, plus my Boy Scout mess kit, canteen, and compass. Because, well, you never know what you\u2019re going to need. The unfinished housing development we lived in then provided an excellent post-holocaust landscape. Hell, I\u2019d probably be living underground anyway like a trapdoor spider, at least until the caesium-137 dissipated.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>You know what they say. You haven\u2019t really lived till you\u2019ve spent a day at Huaqiangbei, a sprawling electronics market in Shenzhen, intended to accommodate bulk orders of all the tiny stuff you need to make fancy gadgets. This is where technocrat wet dreams come true, people. It\u2019s just too bad about the shipping costs: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/shift.newco.co\/what-50-buys-you-at-huaqiangbei-the-worlds-most-fascinating-electronics-market-f0384d9fca32#.ozh0fvjcy\" target=\"_blank\">If you need some bit of electronics or a phone accessory, you can find it in HQB<\/a>. There is an entire multifloor shopping mall that sells nothing but phone cases. There\u2019s one that specializes in smartwatches. There\u2019s a mall that sells cellphones wholesale. There\u2019s one just for surveillance cameras. And then there are the component markets. Need a chip? Or 250,000 chips? Somebody there can get them for you \u2026 We got to learn a little bit about \u2018volume\u2019 purchasing in Shenzhen, found out some interesting details about things we\u2019d seen in the markets before, and learned about some of the headaches of shipping packages from China to the U.S.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>While we\u2019re on technology, here\u2019s John Gray, to dash your dreams of a sleek, posthuman future in which technocratic liberalism has refined all the struggle and conflict out of life: \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/books\/2016\/10\/humanity-mk-ii-why-future-humanity-will-be-just-purposeless-past\">Homo sapiens<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/books\/2016\/10\/humanity-mk-ii-why-future-humanity-will-be-just-purposeless-past\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0is transforming itself into a divine being. It\u2019s an arresting vision. If you think about it, however, the prospect that the human species could \u2018upgrade itself\u2019 to godhood melts away<\/a>. \u2018Humanity\u2019 can\u2019t become God, because \u2018humanity\u2019 does not exist. All that actually exists is the multifarious human animal, with its historic enmities and intractable divisions. The idea that the human species is a collective agent, setting itself \u2018big projects\u2019 and realizing them throughout history, is a humanist myth \u2026 If it ever comes about, a post-human world won\u2019t be one in which the human species has deified itself. More like the cosmos as imagined by the Greeks, it will be ruled by a warring pantheon of gods.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When one thinks of rugged outdoorspersons, one\u2019s mind does not usually summon Simone de Beauvoir. 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