{"id":106713,"date":"2017-01-13T09:12:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T14:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=106713"},"modified":"2017-01-13T12:06:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T17:06:42","slug":"every-day-is-friday-the-thirteenth-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/13\/every-day-is-friday-the-thirteenth-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Day Is Friday the Thirteenth, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_106714\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/firday13th.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106714\" class=\"wp-image-106714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/firday13th.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/firday13th.jpg 1865w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/firday13th-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/firday13th-768x621.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/firday13th-1024x827.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-106714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the theatrical release poster of <i>Friday the 13th<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today is\u00a0Friday the thirteenth\u2014but then, hasn\u2019t every day been, since November 9? New horrors greet us each morning and tuck us in each night. Rebecca Solnit runs a long, thorough postmortem on the election that got us here, imploring us to remember the sexism that coursed through it from start to finish: \u201cIn the spring, Trump retweeted a supporter who asked: \u2018If Hillary Clinton can\u2019t satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?\u2019 Perhaps the president is married to the nation in some mystical way; if so America is about to become a battered woman, badgered, lied to, threatened, gaslighted, betrayed and robbed by a grifter with attention-deficit disorder \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v39\/n02\/rebecca-solnit\/from-lying-to-leering\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton was all that stood between us and a reckless, unstable, ignorant, inane, infinitely vulgar, climate-change-denying white-nationalist misogynist with authoritarian ambitions and kleptocratic plans<\/a>. A lot of people, particularly white men, could not bear her, and that is as good a reason as any for Trump\u2019s victory. Over and over again, I heard men declare that she had failed to make them vote for her. They saw the loss as hers rather than ours, and they blamed her for it, as though election was a gift they withheld from her because she did not deserve it or did not attract them. They did not blame themselves or the electorate or the system for failing to stop Trump.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>While we\u2019re pressing our noses to the cold, clear glass of reality, we might as well ask\u2014just to be prepared\u2014how our society could practice cannibalism without hating ourselves for it. It just seems like it might be a valuable skill in the not-too-distant future, I don\u2019t know. Bill Schutt\u2019s new book <em>Cannibalism <\/em>offers some guidance. Libby Copeland writes in her review: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/books\/2017\/01\/bill_schutt_s_cannibalism_reviewed.html\" target=\"_blank\">What does cannibalism look like in a culture that doesn\u2019t attach as much stigma to it<\/a>? Like many other peoples, the Chinese practiced survival cannibalism during wars and famines; an imperial edict in 205 <small>B.C.<\/small> even made it permissible for \u2018starving Chinese\u2019 to exchange \u2018one another\u2019s children, so that they could be consumed by non-relatives.\u2019 But, according to historical sources cited by Schutt, the Chinese also practiced \u2018learned cannibalism.\u2019 In Chinese books written during Europe\u2019s Middle Ages, human flesh was occasionally cited as an exotic delicacy. In times of great hunger or when a relative was sick, children would sometimes cut off their flesh and prepare it in a soup for their elders. One researcher found \u2018766 documented cases of filial piety\u2019 spanning more than 2,000 years. \u2018The most commonly consumed body part was the thigh, followed by the upper arm;\u2019 the eyeball was banned by edict in 1261.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Looking at early twentieth-century ads for Prince Albert Tobacco reveals just how far the art of copy writing has fallen over the course of the last century. Why, just marvel at the surplus of chutzpah emanating from this pitch to smokers: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=30359&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s P.A. that jams such joy in jimmy pipes<\/a>. Say\u2014bet you\u2019ve often bent-an-ear to that spill-of-speech about hopping from five to f-i-f-t-y p-e-r by \u2018stepping on her a bit!\u2019 Guess that\u2019s going some, all right\u2014BUT just among ourselves, you better start a rapid whiz system to keep tabs as to how fast you\u2019ll buzz from low smoke spirits to TIP-TOP-HIGH\u2014once you line up behind a jimmy pipe that\u2019s all aglow with that peach-of-a-pal, Prince Albert. Prince Albert is john-on-the-job\u2014always joy\u2019usly more-ISH in flavor; always delightfully cool and fragrant! For a fact, you never hooked such double-decked, copper-riveted, two-fisted smoke enjoyment! Go to a pipe\u2014speed-o-quick like you light on a good thing! Why\u2014packed with Prince Albert you can play a joy\u2019us jimmy straight across the boards! AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Meanwhile, in France, Houellebecq is writing poems again, having exhausted the fine arts of fiction writing, painting, acting, and TV-dinner microwaving. In verse, his worldview is \u2026 different, David Wheatley says, but he still gets his point across: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/jan\/12\/unreconciled-poems-michel-houellebecq-review\" target=\"_blank\">Having missed out on the 1930s, Michel Houellebecq is perfectly suited to the age of Trump<\/a>. The war of ideologies, religious fundamentalism and sexual dystopia are well-worn Houellebecq themes, but under them like an ostinato runs the death of Western liberalism: the full\u00a0Spenglerian decline. As he explains in \u2018A Last Stand Against the Free Market,\u2019 \u2018We reject liberal ideology for failing to show the way, or a route to reconciliation between the individual and his fellow beings.\u2019 As snappy aper\u00e7us go (and bear in mind, that\u2019s a line of poetry), it\u2019s not quite \u2018We must love one another or die.\u2019 Long-windedness, however, is the least of Houellebecq\u2019s problems.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on <em>Morning,\u00a0Paraffin<\/em>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>a collaboration about Trinidad between Derek Walcott and Peter Doig, both of whom have called the country home at various points in their lives: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/a-trinidadian-friendship-derek-walcott-and-peter-doig\" target=\"_blank\">The book finds Walcott, who has himself always made paintings, and who will soon turn eighty-seven, responding to the dreamscapes of the painter thirty years his junior<\/a>. On the left-hand pages, prints of fifty-one of Doig\u2019s paintings from the past twenty-five years face poems by Walcott, written in the past two, on the right. Walcott\u2019s free verse dilates upon the places the images evoke for him. A beach scene in crimson elicits an elegy, for instance, for \u2018the wisdom you get from water-bearded rocks\u2019; a painting of one of Paramin\u2019s blue devils prompts an ode to islands whose \u2018heredity is night,\u2019 their \u2018bats and werewolves,\u00a0<em>loups garous<\/em>,\u00a0<em>douennes.<\/em>\u2019 The palette of Doig\u2019s \u2018Gasthof,\u2019 a painting of two figures in beige silhouette, has Walcott recall his first glimpse of an English mustard field\u2014\u2018like opening a book\u2019s brass-studded doors.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: Trump\u2019s sexism; the past glories of tobacco copywriting; how to be a cannibal without hating yourself.<\/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":[679,14374,1815,15391,6044,19381,822,24205,26713,7501,2425],"class_list":["post-106713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-advertising","tag-cannibalism","tag-china","tag-copywriting","tag-derek-walcott","tag-donald-trump","tag-michel-houellebecq","tag-peter-doig","tag-prince-albert-tobacco","tag-rebecca-solnit","tag-sexism"],"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>But Really, Isn\u2019t Every Day Is Friday the 13th?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture news: Rebecca Solnit on Trump\u2019s sexism; 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