{"id":110818,"date":"2017-05-12T09:22:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T13:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=110818"},"modified":"2017-05-12T10:36:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T14:36:52","slug":"you-too-can-be-t-s-eliots-child-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/12\/you-too-can-be-t-s-eliots-child-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"You, Too, Can Be T. S. Eliot\u2019s Child, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_110820\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/tseliot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110820\" class=\"wp-image-110820 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/tseliot.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/tseliot.jpg 2370w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/tseliot-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/tseliot-768x642.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/tseliot-1024x856.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-110820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cShe said she was <i>what<\/i> now?\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Things would be easier if you were the descendant of a famous writer. Doors would open. Carpets would be laid at your feet. I know what you\u2019re thinking: you\u2019re <em>not <\/em>born of literary royalty, and nothing will ever change that. Except: Did you ever consider lying about it? This is a more effective practice than you might expect. Take Alison Reynolds, for example. Until recently, she was claiming to be T. S. Eliot\u2019s <em>twin<\/em>\u00a0daughters, at the same time\u2014even though Eliot had no children. For her troubles, she was rewarded with a few cushy theater gigs and a handsome tax break. And sure, she\u2019s on her way to jail, but maybe it was worth it. Robert Mendick reports, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/crime\/8131424\/Con-artist-faces-jail-for-fraud-after-claiming-to-be-the-twin-daughters-of-TS-Eliot.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alison Reynolds pretended to be both Claire and Chess Eliot, who she claimed were the twin daughters of the poet<\/a>. In fact, Eliot never had any children. Reynolds, who is remanded in custody and facing a jail sentence, used wigs, stage makeup and a variety of costumes to portray herself as at least eleven different aliases over the course of a decade. Using the fake identities, she posed as a theatre producer and director and falsely claimed <small>VAT<\/small> credits in the name of bogus dramatic companies. In 2003, she moved to Burton-upon-Trent in Staffordshire \u2026 setting up the Journeyman Theatre Company and writing a play, <em>Desperately Seeking Jake Roverton<\/em>, to make her scam more compelling \u2026 The ruse was rumbled after theatre staff became suspicious that they had never seen Claire and Chess in the same room.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Book clubs are a great way to foster friendships. If you\u2019d prefer to make enemies, they\u2019re good for that, too. Judith Newman has stories of readers\u2019 flaring tempers: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/11\/books\/dear-book-club-its-you-not-me.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks&amp;_r=0&amp;mtrref=undefined\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth St. Clair, a lawyer \u2026 had her Waterloo in a previous club over Cormac McCarthy\u2019s <em>All the Pretty Horses<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em> The group consisted of several couples, including Ms. St. Clair and her boyfriend at the time. In one scene, she explains, \u2018the main character is staying in a bunkhouse, and over the course of several nights a gorgeous strange woman comes to his bed and has sex with him. The men in the group thought this was the most romantic thing ever\u2014dark, anonymous sex with no consequences. The women, on the other hand, were guffawing. When they pointed out that this was entirely a male fantasy, that few women would relish the prospect of anonymous sex with a possibly unattractive stranger in a\u00a0<em>bunk bed<\/em>, the men felt insulted. Tensions were already high and everything kind of escalated &#8230; People walked out.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rahel Aima wants to be where the algorithms are\u2014wants to see with their eyes, to feel with their artificial fingers: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/reallifemag.com\/eyes-without-a-face\/\" target=\"_blank\">According to its algorithmically generated \u2018preferences\u2019 page in my profile, Facebook\u00a0thinks\u00a0my interests include \u2018protein-protein interaction,\u2019 \u2018first epistle to the Thessalonians,\u2019 and caviar (I\u2019m a vegetarian); that it considers me both an early technology adopter and a late one<\/a>. Infinitely more exciting is the transposed comic-book dream of X-ray vision\u2014seeing through the image to what the machine sees. I want to be able to access that invisible layer of machine-readable markup to test my vision against a computer\u2019s. The sentiment is not that different from the desire to see through the eyes of the other that has historically manifested itself in the colonial history of anthropology or in texts like John Howard Griffin\u2019s\u00a0<em>Black Like Me<\/em>. The desire to see what they see, be it other people or machines, is a desire to feel what they feel.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Floods: bad for life, good for art. Peter Coates writes of the wellspring of music and writing that came from the 1927 Mississippi flood: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/rising-high-water-blues\/\" target=\"_blank\">Since the resonance within American culture of the river known as \u2018Father of Waters,\u2019 \u2018Ol\u2019 Man River,\u2019 and \u2018Big Muddy\u2019 matches its ecological and economic significance, it comes as no surprise that the cultural fallout from the shock of 1927 was also enormous<\/a>\u2014the only comparable phenomenon is the musical inspiration provided by the boll weevil cotton pest, as recounted in James Giesen\u2019s\u00a0<em>Boll Weevil Blues<\/em> \u2026 Even before the waters subsided, Bessie Smith had released \u2018Back-Water Blues,\u2019 followed by \u2018Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan),\u2019 and the country singer Vernon Dalhart had recorded \u2018The Mississippi Flood.\u2019 [Pete] Daniel also listed Sippie Wallace\u2019s \u2018The Flood Blues,\u2019 Ernest Stoneman\u2019s \u2018Mighty Mississippi\u2019 and \u2018Blind Lemon\u2019 Jefferson\u2019s \u2018Rising High Water Blues\u2019 as notable flood songs \u2026 The catastrophe was also crucial in launching the literary careers of William Faulkner (twenty-nine in 1927) and another novelist, Richard Wright (who was just eighteen, and joined the Great Migration northwards in 1927), as well as a major event for already prominent African American writers and public figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter White (soon to become executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and Ida B. Wells-Barnett (notable critic of discriminatory and authoritarian Red Cross relief practices).\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Until recently, Osama Alomar, a Syrian immigrant, was driving a cab to finance his fiction writing. Now, after six years, he\u2019s been able to give that up. Here\u2019s Mythili G. Rao on Alomar\u2019s new book, <em>The Teeth of the Comb<\/em>: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/no-longer-driving-a-cab-a-syrian-writer-in-america-focusses-on-his-fiction?intcid=mod-latest\" target=\"_blank\">These are very short stories\u2014they might be called flash fiction in the U.S., but in the Middle East they are known as\u00a0<em>al-qissa al-qasira jiddan<\/em>.<\/a> There, the genre has a rich, ancient history, and, in recent decades, repression and unrest have brought the style back into fashion. Very short stories can be published and circulated quickly; their political critique is often sharp but also oblique enough to evade censorship. [Alomar\u2019s translator C. J.] Collins told me that there\u2019s a \u2018kind of Arabic literature that wins international prizes and gets translated quickly into English but that doesn\u2019t reflect the popular literature.\u2019 By contrast, he said, \u2018Osama\u2019s work comes from the popular tradition. Even though his stuff gets billed as experimental over here, it was designed to have a popular appeal in the Arab world.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: impersonating people who don\u2019t exist, making enemies in book clubs, seeing through Facebook\u2019s eyes, 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":[15842,28805,16516,28806,2555,951,16187,28807,28808,1772,28219],"class_list":["post-110818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-algorithms","tag-alison-reynolds","tag-book-clubs","tag-computer-vision","tag-cormac-mccarthy","tag-facebook","tag-impersonation","tag-mississippi-flood","tag-osama-alomar","tag-t-s-eliot","tag-the-teeth-of-the-comb"],"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>You, Too, Can Be T. 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