{"id":106933,"date":"2017-01-23T09:11:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T14:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=106933"},"modified":"2017-01-23T16:37:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T21:37:43","slug":"kaboom-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/23\/kaboom-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaboom, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_106934\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/stanislawnotariusz-eksplozja.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106934\" class=\"wp-image-106934 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/stanislawnotariusz-eksplozja.jpg\" width=\"860\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/stanislawnotariusz-eksplozja.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/stanislawnotariusz-eksplozja-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/stanislawnotariusz-eksplozja-768x914.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-106934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanis\u0142aw Notariusz, <i>Explosion<\/i>, 1922.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>God, I fucking love profanity! Profanity: shit, yes! It sometimes seems to these jaded ears that oaths and cusses are all we have left, the only solace in this vale of fucking tears. Joan Acocella, reviewing two new books about swearing, writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2017\/02\/09\/f-ing-around\/\">The very sound of obscenities\u2014forget their sense\u2014seems to ring a bell in us, as is clear from the fact that many of them sound alike<\/a> \u2026 Consonants sound sharper, more absolute, than vowels. (Compare\u00a0<em>piss <\/em>with\u00a0<em>pee<\/em>,\u00a0<em>cunt<\/em>\u00a0with\u00a0<em>pussy<\/em>.) It may be this tough-talk quality that accounts for certain widely recognized benefits of swearwords. For example, they help us endure pain. In one widely cited experiment, subjects were instructed to plunge a hand into ice-cold water and keep it there as long as they could. Half were told that they could utter a swearword while doing this, if they wanted to; the other half were told to say some harmless word, such as\u00a0<em>wood<\/em>. The swearing subjects were able to keep their hands in the water significantly longer than the pure-mouthed group.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Harold Pinter, who knew from obscenity, offered the <em>London Review of Books <\/em>a fairly salty bit of verse back in 1991, as the U.S. waged the first Gulf War. Inigo Thomas writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/20\/inigo-thomas\/pinters-american-football\/\">After the US A-10 tank-buster bombers known as Warthogs had finished off the Iraqi armored brigades on the Basra Road, Harold Pinter, disgusted by the gratuitous carnage, wrote a poem called \u2018American Football.\u2019<\/a>\u2009\u201d What struck the editors then as a mere novelty is now penetrating, even pungent. Here are the first few lines:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Hallelujah!<br \/>\nIt works.<br \/>\nWe blew the shit out of them.<br \/>\nWe blew the shit right back up their own ass<br \/>\nAnd out their fucking ears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Philip Roth retired a few years ago, but he kept his e-mail account, which means he\u2019s getting the same spam we are\u2014and that\u2019s a nice thought. It also means Judith Thurman was able to send him a few questions about our Great National Unraveling. Recall that Roth\u2019s 2004 counterfactual novel, <em>The Plot Against America<\/em>, imagined Lindbergh in the Oval Office. And then read what Roth has to say about Trump: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/01\/30\/philip-roth-e-mails-on-trump\">It is easier to comprehend the election of an imaginary President like Charles Lindbergh than an actual President like Donald Trump<\/a>. Lindbergh, despite his Nazi sympathies and racist proclivities, was a great aviation hero who had displayed tremendous physical courage and aeronautical genius in crossing the Atlantic in 1927. He had character and he had substance and, along with Henry Ford, was, worldwide, the most famous American of his day. Trump is just a con artist. The relevant book about Trump\u2019s American forebear is Herman Melville\u2019s <em>The Confidence-Man<\/em>, the darkly pessimistic, daringly inventive novel\u2014Melville\u2019s last\u2014that could just as well have been called <em>The Art of the Scam<\/em>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Beatty, at a literary festival in Jaipur, India, talked Trump, too, though his take is just the opposite from Roth\u2019s: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/jan\/22\/paul-beatty-trumps-america-has-always-existed\">This is nothing new. To me that\u2019s the part that feels disingenuous<\/a>. When people go, I don\u2019t recognize this place. And I\u2019m like, where have you been? That\u2019s the part that bothers me. With the police violence\u2014people are like, Oh I didn\u2019t know. And it\u2019s like people have been putting this in your face for ages and all of a sudden now \u2026 why now? \u2026 Maybe I just don\u2019t feel accepted, so I don\u2019t feel hurt. I\u2019m not a patriot. It\u2019s just my home, where I grew up, but hurt, no. I don\u2019t have that parental relationship to the place. It\u2019s like if my mom kicked me out of my house, I\u2019m hurt. I don\u2019t have that relationship to the government, to the people. I don\u2019t.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And Lewis Lapham blames the culture for devaluing the written word for more than a generation: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2017\/01\/surviving-trump-lewis-lapham-wants-democracy-rise-ashes.html\">Trouble is that writers have been discounted in the American scheme of things over the last fifty years now<\/a>. I\u2019m old enough to remember\u2014I\u2019m at Yale in 1952 to 1956, and to be a writer was an important thing. There was the belief that writers could change the world. And the heroes were people like\u00a0Camus,\u00a0Yeats, even\u00a0Auden, and\u00a0Hemingway,\u00a0Mailer. The notion that literature was going to come up with important answers. Solzhenitsyn\u2014the novel as heroic \u2026 And so the writer seems to have less\u2014Nader explained this to me once. Nader said that when he, in the sixties, published\u00a0<em>Unsafe at Any Speed<\/em>, within a year, there were hearings, rules got changed, safety belts got put on cars. And this was genuinely true in the sixties. Protest the Vietnam War. The Civil Rights Movement\u2014civil rights legislation goes in with\u00a0Johnson. It had an effect. Now, it doesn\u2019t have an effect. We all know that we\u2019re being governed by crooks, but we make a joke out of it.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: the joys of profanity, a lost poem from Harold Pinter, and talking Trump with Paul Beatty.<\/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":[6350,19381,26837,4616,15254,17241,99,7221,2426,3702,12304],"class_list":["post-106933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-charles-lindbergh","tag-donald-trump","tag-gulf-war","tag-harold-pinter","tag-lewis-lapham","tag-paul-beatty","tag-philip-roth","tag-poems","tag-politics","tag-profanity","tag-swearing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - 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