{"id":105616,"date":"2016-12-08T09:22:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T14:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=105616"},"modified":"2016-12-08T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T15:49:00","slug":"this-guy-needs-a-lot-of-surgery-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/08\/this-guy-needs-a-lot-of-surgery-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"This Guy Needs a Lot of Surgery, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_105617\" style=\"width: 741px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/woundman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105617\" class=\"wp-image-105617 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/woundman.jpg\" width=\"731\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/woundman.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/woundman-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A textbook Medieval Wound Man. Image: Wellcome Library, via <em>Public Domain Review<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Imagine being a <em>successful writer<\/em>. Like, one who actually makes enough money to have a large disposable income; one who has so many passionate readers that one\u2019s personal life comes under scrutiny. It\u2019s hard to picture it, isn\u2019t it? If it actually happened to you, would you even know how to spend the money? Or would you do what Sara Gruen, the author of <em>Water for Elephants,<\/em> did, and buy a bunch of Hatchimals on eBay? Michael Schaub writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/books\/jacketcopy\/la-et-jc-sara-gruen-hatchimals-20161207-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The writer purchased 156 of the in-demand toys at an average price of $151\u2014spending more than $23,000\u2014with the goal of reselling them at a further marked-up price<\/a>. She intends to use the proceeds to help fund the defense of a man she says is serving a life sentence for a crime he didn\u2019t commit. Her plan backfired, though, when eBay wouldn\u2019t let her resell the toys, she wrote in a Facebook post\u00a0that drew some harsh criticism from readers. One\u00a0called\u00a0her move \u2018Christmas greed,\u2019 while another wrote, \u2018Exploiting families whose children want these toys for Christmas is awful.\u2019 She did have supporters, however, such as the woman who wrote, \u201cDon\u2019t let the haters stop you from doing what you believe is right! (((HUGS)))\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Tony Tulathimutte has had it up to here with this whole notion of the \u201cvoice of a generation\u201d novel\u2014so don\u2019t ask him if he\u2019s at work on one: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/07\/books\/review\/why-theres-no-millennial-novel.html\" target=\"_blank\">The idea of a one-size-fits-all masterpiece runs squarely against the novel form<\/a>. Novels can certainly cover plenty of ground, containing hundreds of characters in diverse settings, but they\u2019re still all about specificity. To a novelist, the lowest common denominator of affectations, fashions and consumption patterns evoked by the generational tag are seldom any character\u2019s most interesting qualities, except in novels that are about superficiality itself, like <em>American Psycho<\/em>. The generational novel, like the Great American Novel, is a comforting romantic myth, which wrongly assumes that commonality is more significant than individuality.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Say you\u2019re looking for a provocative, eye-opening way to open your medieval surgical treatise\u2014something that says to your readers, Look out, people, I am not fucking around here. Might I recommend an illustration of a deeply, violently wounded man, one whose lesions and contusions are practically crying out for a capable surgeon, i.e., you? Jack Hartnell has traced the history of this hero, this Wound Man: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/2016\/12\/07\/the-many-lives-of-the-medieval-wound-man\/\" target=\"_blank\">The earliest known versions of the Wound Man appeared at the turn of the fifteenth century in books on the surgical craft, particularly works from Southern Germany associated with the renowned W\u00fcrzburg surgeon Ortolf von Baierland<\/a>. Accompanying a text known as the \u201cWundarznei\u201d (The Surgery), these first Wound Men effectively functioned as a human table of contents for the cures contained within the relevant treatise \u2026 The Wound Man image was a convenient way for medieval surgeons to navigate their texts, but it was also an arresting reminder for both practitioners and patients of the vital knowledge contained within such manuscripts. It was living proof of the efficacy of the surgical enterprise \u2026 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Before Oulipo and its golden age of wanton prose experimentation, there was Ernest Vincent Wright, a novelist who was really into radical restraints, if you catch my drift. (And I don\u2019t mean he had a BDSM fetish.) In 1939, he published <em>Gadsby<\/em>, a novel entirely without the letter <em>e<\/em>; its <em>e<\/em>-less-ness caused such a scandal that he had to self-publish it. Richard Davies writes, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/books\/gadsby-lipogram\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Gadsby tells the story of a fictional city called Branton Hills, which is revitalized as a result of the efforts of its new mayor, John Gadsby, and a group of young people<\/a> \u2026 It is awkward to read. The narrative doesn\u2019t flow and it feels like Wright swallowed a dictionary, which he probably did. The characters\u2019 speech is stilted. The plot concerns civic improvements, like creating a zoo, and these are not the most thrilling of literary devices: \u2018Branton Hills\u2019 philanthrophy was now showing signs of monotony; so our Organization had to work its linguistic ability and captivating tricks full blast, until that thousand dollars had so grown that a library was built on a vacant lot which had grown nothing but grass \u2026 \u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s holiday-party season\u2014as good a time as any to remind yourself that drinking wine may not be <em>moral<\/em>, but it\u2019s definitely <em>ethical<\/em>. Tim Crane is aware of alcohol\u2019s philosophical pedigree: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/wine-beyond-good-evil\/\" target=\"_blank\">Plato argued that those over forty should get drunk \u2018to renew their youth, and that, through forgetfulness of care, the temper of their souls may lose its hardness and become softer and more ductile.\u2019<\/a> Kant thought that when drunk \u2018we forget and overlook the weaknesses of others \u2026 people who are otherwise hard-hearted become, through intoxication, good-humored, communicative and benign\u2019 \u2026 Those who think of value in purely moral terms will find it difficult to fit the value of experiences like this into their world view. But if our questions about how to live include questions about how to drink\u2014to which there are good and bad answers\u2014then wine is a subject for ethics, but not for morality.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s here, he&#8217;s hurt, he&#8217;s in deep need of medical attention: but what is his history? 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