{"id":107770,"date":"2017-02-15T09:43:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T14:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=107770"},"modified":"2017-02-15T10:11:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T15:11:29","slug":"the-stench-of-orwell-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/15\/the-stench-of-orwell-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stench of Orwell, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_107771\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/757px-george_orwell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107771\" class=\"wp-image-107771\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/757px-george_orwell.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/757px-george_orwell.jpg 757w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/757px-george_orwell-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration: Bernd Pohlenz<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If I had to lodge one complaint against the bulk of literary fiction, I\u2019d say this: not enough smells. Too many writers neglect the olfactory. The fact is this world reeks, and I want to know about it in vivid detail. John Sutherland\u2019s new book <em>Orwell\u2019s Nose <\/em>makes it clear that the author of <em>1984<\/em>\u2014so on trend right now\u2014was always writing with his nostrils. As David Trotter, reviewing the book, explains, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v39\/n04\/david-trotter\/i-say-damn-it-where-are-the-beds\" target=\"_blank\">Odor is front and center in Orwell\u2019s work, and Sutherland has provided some helpful \u2018smell narratives\u2019 that enable us to follow an oblique path through some of the best-known texts (fiction and documentary) from one hotspot of rankling secretions to another<\/a>. Unsurprisingly, given the genres Orwell favored, bad smells predominate: \u2018sour\u2019 sweat and \u2018sweetish\u2019 (or \u2018sickly\u2019) excrement top the bill, but there\u2019s an honorable mention, too, for machine-age effluvia such as petroleum vapor. Still, we\u2019re not to suppose that extreme olfaction only ends in nausea. It\u2019s crucial, for example, to the Orientalism of\u00a0<em>Burmese Days<\/em>, animating as few other sensations could the embrace in which John Flory wraps his \u2018house concubine\u2019, Ma Hla May. \u2018A mingled scent of sandalwood, garlic, coconut oil and the jasmine in her hair floated from her. It was a scent that always made his teeth tingle.\u2019 Sutherland devotes considerable attention to the aphrodisiac effect on Orwell of sweet-smelling open spaces. Edenic lovemaking in a \u2018golden countryside\u2019 embellished with wild peppermint is George Bowling\u2019s dream in <em>Coming Up for Air<\/em>; and Winston Smith\u2019s, too, in\u00a0<em>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Singapore reads, but it doesn\u2019t <em>read<\/em>, you know what I mean? (I mean it has a literacy rate of 98 percent but only 40 percent of its citizens picked up a literary book\u00a0last year.) Now Singaporean panjandrums hope to persuade more people to read by making tiny books. This will work. People love tiny things. I myself started flossing only when floss was produced in miniscule packages; I started voting only when the ballot shrank and I had to read it through a tiny municipal magnifying glass, which I thought was just the cutest thing. Amanda Erickson writes of Singapore, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2017\/02\/11\/people-in-singapore-dont-read-can-these-tiny-books-change-that\/?utm_term=.120802cff519\" target=\"_blank\">Starting this month, public-transportation riders will be able to buy pocket-size tomes for about $10<\/a>. The \u2018ticket books\u2019 are part of a broader campaign to get people reading again. Their launch will coincide with a weekend of book fairs, author meet-and-greets and literature seminars across the city-state \u2026 [Reading] will be a hard habit to instill \u2026 Student Ang Beng Heng, twenty-four,\u00a0told <em>Straits Times<\/em>\u00a0that he\u2019d rather check his news apps and Facebook feeds in his free time. \u2018Current affairs are more often used as a conversation topic,\u2019 he said. \u2018It is also more important and related to work and career.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Writing <em>The Executioner\u2019s Song<\/em>, Norman Mailer struck up an increasingly warm correspondence with Jack Abbott, a convicted murderer whose accounts of prison life gave Mailer some of his best material. The pair grew so close that Mailer ended up petitioning the state of Utah for Abbott\u2019s parole\u2014which did not end well. Abbott, not long after leaving prison, murdered again, and blood was on Mailer\u2019s hands. Sarah Weinman writes, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/140610\/norman-mailers-fatal-friendship\" target=\"_blank\">Mailer\u2019s name carried weight with the Utah parole board, too, as did his promise that Abbott, if released, would work as his literary assistant<\/a>. With hindsight, it seems inevitable that Abbott\u2019s freedom\u2014he was released in June 1981\u2014was short-lived. Richard Adan, an actor and writer who had the terrible misfortune to encounter a drunken, raging, vituperative Abbott in the early morning hours of July 18, paid the ultimate price \u2026 The signs of Abbott\u2019s doomed post-release life are there \u2026 \u2018What if I am only justifying myself unconsciously with these words and they are silly excuses to be an asshole?\u2019 Abbott wrote to Mailer, with respect to his hopes for freedom. And later, speaking more directly on the subject, \u2018Am I to be content to walk free along the same streets as men who have entered my cell and beaten me to the floor with full knowledge and consent of everyone?\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Here\u2019s Robert Darnton with a primer on the history of fake news, which, like so many varieties of seediness and sleaze, really found its zenith in the London of centuries past: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2017\/02\/13\/the-true-history-of-fake-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">The production of fake, semi-false, and true but compromising snippets of news reached a peak in eighteenth-century London, when newspapers began to circulate among a broad public<\/a>. In 1788, London had ten dailies, eight tri-weeklies, and nine weekly newspapers, and their stories usually consisted of only a paragraph. \u2018Paragraph men\u2019 picked up gossip in coffee houses, scribbled a few sentences on a scrap of paper, and turned in the text to printer-publishers, who often set it in the next available space of a column of type on a composing stone. Some paragraph men received payment; some contented themselves with manipulating public opinion for or against a public figure, a play, or a book.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Daniel Brook looks at the almost terrifyingly vast scale of Mexico City\u2019s new airport, a massive project staked to the city\u2019s future in innumerable ways: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/placesjournal.org\/article\/history-of-the-present-mexico-city\/\" target=\"_blank\">Using the airport as a symbol of his mission to end crony capitalism, Pe\u00f1a Nieto announced an open architectural competition<\/a>. In monopoly-friendly Mexico, open competitions for large, complex infrastructure projects are extremely rare. (In fact, they are not common even in the 122 countries that have less public-sector corruption.) But the president wanted to model a new way of doing business, modern and transparent \u2026 The winning team, announced later that year, was a glass-and-steel greenhouse by the octogenarian English architect Norman Foster and his youthful Mexican collaborator, Fernando Romero. Constructed of a gridded lightweight shell, the terminal looked like one of Buckminster Fuller\u2019s geodesic domes stretched into the shape of a huge desert spider. Fans said it recaptured the midcentury magic of the\u00a0<em>megaproyecto<\/em>. Critics said it was trapped by it.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: the smells in George Orwell\u2019s prose, the origins of fake news, Singapore\u2019s tiny book campaign, and more.<\/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":[15225,14304,4840,27302,18096,9685,2229,1437,53,27301,18583],"class_list":["post-107770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-airports","tag-fake-news","tag-george-orwell","tag-jack-abbott","tag-literacy","tag-media","tag-mexico-city","tag-norman-mailer","tag-reading","tag-singapore","tag-smells"],"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>Say 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