{"id":109180,"date":"2017-03-24T09:02:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=109180"},"modified":"2017-03-24T10:12:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T14:12:02","slug":"the-cows-will-kill-you-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/24\/the-cows-will-kill-you-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cows Will Kill You, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_109181\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1280px-henri_rousseau_-_scene_in_bagneux_on_the_outskirts_of_paris_-_google_art_project.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109181\" class=\"wp-image-109181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1280px-henri_rousseau_-_scene_in_bagneux_on_the_outskirts_of_paris_-_google_art_project.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1280px-henri_rousseau_-_scene_in_bagneux_on_the_outskirts_of_paris_-_google_art_project.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1280px-henri_rousseau_-_scene_in_bagneux_on_the_outskirts_of_paris_-_google_art_project-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1280px-henri_rousseau_-_scene_in_bagneux_on_the_outskirts_of_paris_-_google_art_project-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1280px-henri_rousseau_-_scene_in_bagneux_on_the_outskirts_of_paris_-_google_art_project-1024x724.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-109181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henri Rousseau, <i>Scene in Bagneux on the Outskirts of Paris<\/i>, 1909.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go ahead and laugh at the cows, with their multiple stomachs, their indolent cud chewing, their superfluity of feces. The cows will kill you. Deep in a cow\u2019s soul is an existential rage, a hatred of its own <em>cowness<\/em> that, once activated, generates an unslakable thirst for blood. And it is human blood they crave, for it is humans who have made their condition one of endless bondage. The statistics bear me out on this\u2014at least in the United Kingdom, where, as Glen Newey writes, you\u2019re more likely to die under the hooves of an angry steer than you are at the hands of a terrorist: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/03\/23\/glen-newey\/beware-of-cows\/\" target=\"_blank\">The HSE [Health and Safety Executive] logs seventy-four \u2018fatalities involving cattle\u2019 in the UK in 2000\u201315, compared to fifty-three deaths caused by Islamist terrorism in the same period<\/a>. Many of the victims were farm workers, while eighteen were \u2018MOPs\u2019 or members of the public. These victims were disproportionately older people (only one was under fifty, thirteen were over sixty and as many as five were over seventy). More chilling still, as the HSE report makes clear, is the specific threat posed by out-of-control mothering cows. Of incident reports where the gender of the assailant was identified, ten involved cows with calves, and only one a bull. Hence it emerges that predominantly older people are being targeted by nursing cattle. Vegans seem largely to have been spared. But nobody is wholly safe from this civilizational threat, not just to our persons but to our old, carnivorous values.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Since the election, Sinclair Lewis\u2019s novel <em>It Can\u2019t Happen Here <\/em>has been having a moment, as Americans continue to wrap their minds around the basic irony that it has, in fact, happened here. But Steven Michels recommends another book by Lewis\u2014his 1919 novel,\u00a0<em>Free Air<\/em>, which is one of the earliest iterations of road-trip literature and presents, Michels says, \u201cLewis\u2019s most affirmative vision\u201d of freedom: \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/2017\/03\/22\/american-freedom-sinclair-lewis-and-the-open-road\/\">Free Air <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/2017\/03\/22\/american-freedom-sinclair-lewis-and-the-open-road\/\" target=\"_blank\">is the story of two young people, Milt and Claire. Milt is a small-town mechanic and garage owner, and Claire is from Long Island and in the middle of a coast-to-coast trip to Seattle with her father<\/a>. Like many Northeasterners, Claire believes that the rest of the country is filled with folks who are good but simple. Milt knows better. He had been plotting an escape from its dreary doldrums, but is enthralled with Claire when she comes through town, and he ends up following her and her father on their journey west. Claire quickly falls for the heartiness of the outdoors, even though she sees Milt more like a brother than a romantic partner. \u2018There is an America!\u2019 Claire cheers by her tent, after she and Milt forgo her usual hotel \u2026 Once they get to their destination, however, they discover that everyone is obsessed with \u2018the View\u2019 and ranks houses accordingly. What\u2019s worse is that everyone builds and buys from the assumption that houses ought to resemble the East Coast as much as possible.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joan Acocella eulogizes Trisha Brown, the dancer and choreographer who died last\u00a0week at eighty; in Brown\u2019s\u00a0work, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/postscript-trisha-brown?intcid=mod-latest\" target=\"_blank\">movements took on a flickering, shimmering quality<\/a>. Sometimes they were gone before you could see them. And she started generating them out of complicated systems. In her famous \u2018Accumulation\u2019 pieces, she would begin with a simple routine of thumbs up, then thumbs to the side. But soon another pattern would intrude (up, sideways, then the other side, then up, again up &#8230; ), so that you couldn\u2019t follow the formula any more \u2026 An accumulation might be performed on a stage or, alternatively, on a park bench or in a plaza or on a wooden raft in a lagoon. \u2018I\u2019m always trying to deflect your focus,\u2019 she told Yvonne Rainer in a 1979 interview. \u2018When ninety-nine per cent of the body is moving to the right, I will stick something out to the left \u2026 to set up some sort of reverberation between the two.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Nina Martyris, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/23\/hugo-inc\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote yesterday for the <em>Daily <\/em>about the publishing deal that culminated in <em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em><\/a>, has also been busy thinking about the role of bread in the novel: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2017\/03\/20\/520459332\/let-them-eat-bread-the-theft-that-helped-inspire-les-miserables\" target=\"_blank\">Almost everyone in\u00a0<em>Les Mis\u00e9rables\u00a0<\/em>eats black bread. But, as the novel shows, not all black bread is equal<\/a>. The rural poor are reduced to eating black bread \u2018so hard that they cut it up with an axe, and soak it for twenty-four hours, before they can eat it.\u2019 In one scene, an abject prisoner \u2018raised to his mouth something like a black stone, which he seemed to be gnawing; it was bread.\u2019 And in another, a starving young girl named \u00c9ponine catches sight \u2018of a dry crust of bread on the commode, which was molding there amid the dust; she flung herself upon it and bit into it, muttering: That\u2019s good! it\u2019s hard! it breaks my teeth!\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In the late sixties, George Harrison recorded a soundtrack for the movie <em>Wonderwall<\/em>\u2014a little-known record on which he really lets it all hang out. Graeme Thomson writes, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2017\/mar\/23\/maccas-banjo-mellotron-and-a-monkee-the-story-of-george-harrisons-wonderwall-music\" target=\"_blank\">Newly rereleased in a box set of Harrison\u2019s solo work, <em>Wonderwall Music<\/em> encompasses tamboura drones, Vedic chants, skiffle, ragtime, clip-clopping country, wah-wah squalls, woozy mellotron, experimental sonic collage and, on \u2018Ski-ing,\u2019 one hundred seconds of Eric Clapton at his most raggedly explosive<\/a>. The sound of Harrison\u2019s musical curiosity taking flight, it is also an implicit expression of his disaffection within the Beatles, perhaps even an intimation of the beginning of the end \u2026 <em>Wonderwall<\/em>\u2019s most experimental five minutes are \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=779ZlgO9low\" target=\"_blank\">Dream Scene<\/a>,\u2019 a sonically disorientating pick-and-mix of ambient backwards guitar, swooning Bollywood love calls, wailing flutes, treated electronics, disjointed harmonicas, atonal pianos, air-raid sirens, the chimes of a grandfather clock, nightmarish sampled voices and church bells.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: the fatality rate involving livestock; Sinclair Lewis\u2019s neglected road-trip novel; remembering Trisha Brown.<\/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":[19396,2261,55,2186,88,27979,18135,9663,11989,3892,3706,18577,27980],"class_list":["post-109180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-bread","tag-cows","tag-dance","tag-death","tag-england","tag-free-air","tag-george-harrison","tag-les-miserables","tag-obituaries","tag-sinclair-lewis","tag-terrorism","tag-trisha-brown","tag-wonderwall"],"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>Watch Yourself: The Cows Are Out for Blood<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture news: the fatality rate involving livestock; 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