{"id":108879,"date":"2017-03-17T09:54:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T13:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=108879"},"modified":"2017-03-17T11:41:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T15:41:09","slug":"a-comma-for-the-working-man-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/17\/a-comma-for-the-working-man-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"A Comma for the Working Man, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/comma.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-108880 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/comma-e1489761984293.png\" width=\"850\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/comma-e1489761984293.png 850w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/comma-e1489761984293-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/comma-e1489761984293-768x255.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This world is full of pointless suffering and unending torment \u2026 but at least we\u2019ve got the serial comma. Grammarians are fond of saying things like \u201cthe comma improves our way of life\u201d and \u201cproper punctuation is money in the bank\u201d; normally they\u2019re full of shit, but today they\u2019re onto something. As Elena Cresci writes, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/mar\/16\/oxford-comma-helps-drivers-win-dispute-about-overtime-pay\" target=\"_blank\">In a judgment that will delight Oxford comma enthusiasts everywhere, a U.S. court of appeals sided with delivery drivers for Oakhurst Dairy because the lack of a comma made part of Maine\u2019s overtime laws too ambiguous<\/a> \u2026 The state\u2019s law says the following activities do not count for overtime pay: \u2018The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of (1) agricultural produce;\u00a0(2) meat and fish products; and\u00a0(3) perishable foods.\u2019 The drivers argued, due to a lack of a comma between \u2018packing for shipment\u2019 and \u2018or distribution,\u2019 the law refers to the single activity of \u2018packing,\u2019 not to \u2018packing\u2019 and \u2018distribution\u2019 as two separate activities. As the drivers distribute\u2014but do not pack\u2014the goods, this would make them eligible for overtime pay.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Rhyme schemers: Anthony Madrid urges you to take the easy way out. \u201cThere was nothing wrong in 1592, and there is nothing wrong in 2017, with using the same rhyme pairs over and over and over,\u201d he writes: \u201cYou can call {<em>sing|spring<\/em>} a \u201crhyme clich\u00e9\u201d if you want, but that attitude leads to flushing six sevenths of world literature down the toilet \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/plumepoetry.com\/2017\/02\/essays-and-comment-5\/\" target=\"_blank\">We have all encountered persons who triumphantly cite the fact that nothing rhymes with\u00a0<em>orange<\/em><\/a>. It is always\u00a0<em>orange<\/em>\u00a0they point to. Never\u00a0<em>scissors<\/em>, never <em>morgue<\/em>, never\u00a0<em>geode<\/em>. Never any of the other thousands of words that have no rhyme partner. Because: the orangists have given the matter no thought. They are quoting. As they always are. The more interesting phenomenon from the researcher\u2019s point of view is the case of rhyme pairs like {<em>fountain|mountain<\/em>}, where each of the words has a rhyme, but\u00a0<em>only one<\/em>. Where either\u00a0<em>mountain<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>fountain<\/em>\u00a0appears in rhyme position, the other is literally inevitable. Likewise with {<em>only|lonely<\/em>}. Likewise with {c<em>ulture|vulture<\/em>}. And others. There is no essential and inescapable\u00a0<em>semantic<\/em>\u00a0link between the words in those rhyme pairs. Yet, there is, to be sure, an inescapable link.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Richard Hell visits \u201cInventing Downtown,\u201d a new exhibition that remembers the artist-run galleries of the fifties and sixties: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/14\/raucous-disorderly-downtown-art-galleries\/\" target=\"_blank\">The artists of \u2018Inventing Downtown\u2019 are linked in their struggle to make works that matter in the wake of Pollock and company (though there are plenty of other currents as well, from John Cage and Jean Dubuffet to Matisse)<\/a>. It\u2019s exhilarating and moving to watch, and also fun to see unfamiliar, atypical works from those who later became famous \u2026 Another revelation\u00a0of the show and catalog is the emphasis on work by people of color and women, like Ed Clark, Bob Thompson, Rosalyn Drexler, and Yayoi Kusama. A note Drexler received from the sculptor David Smith following the opening of her first solo show at the Reuben Gallery in 1960, quoted in the catalog, reads, \u2018All these talented women, they stop. I don\u2019t know why, they stop. So please don\u2019t stop.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In Algeria, Alice Kaplan reports on \u00c9ditions Barzakh, a publishing house founded in 2000 that\u2019s shaken up the country\u2019s literary establishment, especially with Samir Toumi\u2019s novel <em>L\u2019Effacement<\/em>, whose narrator \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/algerias-new-imprint\/\" target=\"_blank\">is the passive son of the dearly departed Commandant Hac\u00e8ne, one of the great heroes of the Algerian War of Liberation, and he is incapable of feeling or thinking for himself. He is horrified by all human contact, all warmth<\/a> \u2026 The War of Liberation has dominated Algerian history so unequivocally that it has relegated all other eras and influences to the shadows. But today, the Algerians who were twenty or thirty years old in 1962 are dying, and their children and grandchildren will have to invent a future for the country without them. Toumi and his editors at \u00c9ditions Barzakh, Sofiane Hadjadj and Selma Hellal, hope readers will see the reflection of a new Algeria in the writing and publishing of books open to all imaginative possibilities.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There\u2019s not much to be said in defense of the Internet, but there is this: it helps you find people who can answer your most ridiculous questions. The blog <em>Stump the Bookseller<\/em> is especially great at this; it exists to \u201creconnect people to the books they love but can\u2019t quite remember.\u201d Alice Gregory recommends it: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/16\/magazine\/letter-of-recommendation-stump-the-bookseller.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Part puzzle, part civic-minded project, the blog is run by the owner and staff of Loganberry Books, a bookstore near Cleveland, and is updated weekly with a cache of up to ten entries<\/a>. Some posts read like dream-journal entries, others like desperate postings on medical message boards. They are descriptive, urgent, mystifying. A boy befriends a floating ball from outer space. A Portuguese brooch is lost in a Cape Cod cranberry bog. A girl\u2014\u2018strange and a little disgusting\u2019\u2014cleans her toenails with a borrowed barrette. There is a dwarf who wears a gold ring as a belt; a newt who may or may not be named Reddy; a girl in tap shoes who bakes a chicken. <em>Stump the Bookseller<\/em>, which has existed in various forms for more than two decades, claims to have a \u2018nearly 50 percent success rate in finding these long-lost but treasured books.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: a serial comma affords a legal victory, easy rhymes are the best rhymes, and 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