{"id":112054,"date":"2017-06-26T09:17:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T13:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=112054"},"modified":"2017-06-26T11:33:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T15:33:24","slug":"the-princes-perfect-poo-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/the-princes-perfect-poo-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prince\u2019s Perfect Poo, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_112055\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dauphin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112055\" class=\"wp-image-112055\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dauphin.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dauphin.jpg 1078w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dauphin-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dauphin-768x610.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dauphin-1024x813.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-112055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louis-Joseph-Xavier-Fran\u00e7ois.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every era has its fads and fashions. When the dust settles, will cultural historians look kindly on 2017, in which the citizens of Western metropolises <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2017\/05\/new-fashion-trends-normcore-gorpcore.html\" target=\"_blank\">roam the streets looking like we could go camping at any moment<\/a>? I cannot say. But I think we should give ourselves some credit\u2014even the most lamentable style of the past ten years, the red #<small>MAGA<\/small> baseball cap, looks sensible in comparison to the sins of the past. During Marie Antoinette\u2019s time, for instance, there was a brief craze for <em>caca-dauphin<\/em>, a shade of brown that resembled the color of the new prince Louis-Joseph\u2019s soiled diapers. In the most fashionable circles, people dressed to celebrate the royal bowel movements. As Michael Taube writes in a review of Carolyn Purnell\u2019s new book <em>The Sensational Past<\/em>, this was but one example of eccentric Enlightenment-era trends: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.claremont.org\/crb\/basicpage\/a-sense-of-enlightenment\/\" target=\"_blank\">This awakening of our senses led to some astonishing results, from sensible to senseless<\/a> \u2026 The citronella-based drink Water of Carmes, which supposedly \u2018stimulated memory and got rid of unpleasant fantasies,\u2019 was popular for a time \u2026 A few relatively harmless drinks aside, the senses of the Enlightenment occasionally ventured into some strange territory. Take the brief rise of \u2018prince poo.\u2019 During the time of Marie Antoinette in France, wealthy individuals \u2018spent the equivalent of thousands of dollars to wear the clothing the color of baby poop.\u2019 This grotesque fashion choice was done \u2018as a way to show their support for the monarchy and to demonstrate how fashionable they could be.\u2019 There was also the cat piano. As the story goes, King Philip II of Spain brought his father, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, a ridiculous contraption in 1549 \u2018with twenty rather narrow boxes, each of which contained a cat\u2019 that would produce a \u2018lamentable meowing\u2019 when a key was pressed.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Corporations love to infantilize consumers, and they\u2019re always looking for new and novel ways to do so. Take the new Kmart shopping bag, for instance\u2014Vinson Cunningham has seen it, and he is afraid: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/photo-booth\/kmart-image-of-american-hyperbole\" target=\"_blank\">The bag, pristinely white, its surface marked by forgiving wrinkles, is set against a subtle gradient-blue background that looks like the sky<\/a>. It might have been tossed away and carried upward by the wind. \u2018Life is ridiculously\u00a0<em>awesome<\/em>,\u2019 it says, in two bubbly, bright-red fonts: a juicy cursive and a blocky, all-caps sans serif \u2026 Kmart\u00a0adopted this slogan just last March, after several years of market share lost to Walmart, in order to attract a rising generation of millennial shoppers. The hope was to convince them (or, I guess,\u00a0<em>remind<\/em>\u00a0them) that consumption, retail-style, could, in the corporation\u2019s words, be \u2018fun,\u2019 even \u2018awesome\u2019 \u2026 The hint of self-consciously campy nostalgia in its new \u2018look and feel\u2019 seems connected to the steady decay of the shopping experience that once helped to define, and to bolster, a wide swath of working- and lower-middle-class life in America.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Saeed Kamali Dehghan on the profusions and confusions of the Iranian publishing industry, whose cavalier approach to copyright makes for an abundance of shoddy translations: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/jun\/23\/why-iran-has-16-different-translations-of-one-khaled-hosseini-novel?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks\" target=\"_blank\">If J. D. Salinger could see what was on the shelves in Iranian bookshops, he would turn in his grave<\/a>. <em>The Inverted Forest<\/em>, a 1947 novella that he refused to republish in the U.S. for more than half a century, is widely available in Farsi in most Iranian bookshops \u2026 just one example of Iran\u2019s messy, complicated, yet fascinating translation scene, which has long been undermined by the country\u2019s failure to join the\u00a0Berne convention on copyright \u2026 The popularity of foreign fiction and the difficulties of obtaining permission have exacerbated the problem of multiple translations of the same book popping up, with some translators exploiting the copyright vacuum\u2014particularly so for bestsellers. Khaled Hosseini\u2019s <em>And the Mountains Echoed<\/em>, for instance, has been translated into Persian by at least sixteen different people \u2026 In 2008, Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee asked me to pass on a statement to the Iranian news agencies, one that reflected his belief that copyright protection was not just about money. \u2018It does upset writers, justifiably, when their books are taken over without permission, translated by amateurs and sold without their knowledge,\u2019 he wrote.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The English invented English, but Americans have perfected it. Or so we might assume, to judge by the number of Americanisms and loanwords that have infiltrated the once-impenetrable walls of British English. And the Brits are pissed about this\u2014many of them would prefer their tongues unsullied by such American poisons as \u201cno-brainer\u201d and \u201celevator.\u201d Reviewing Matthew Engel\u2019s\u00a0<em>That\u2019s the Way It Crumbles<\/em>, John Sutherland writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/books\/2017\/06\/thats-way-it-crumbles-matthew-engel-explores-americanisms\" target=\"_blank\">We talk, think and probably dream American. It\u2019s semantic colonialism<\/a> \u2026 One of the charms of this book is Engel hunting down his prey like a linguistic witchfinder-general. He is especially vexed by the barbarous locution \u2018wake-up call.\u2019 The first use he finds is \u2018in an ice hockey \u00adreport in the\u00a0<em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>in 1975\u2019 \u2026 Another bee in Engel\u2019s bonnet is the compound \u2018from the get-go.\u2019 He tracks it down to a 1958 Hank Mobley tune called \u2018Git-Go Blues.\u2019 And where is that putrid locution now? Michael Gove, then Britain\u2019s education secretary, used it in a 2010 interview on Radio 4. Unclean! Unclean! \u2026 Britain in 2017 is, to borrow an Americanism, \u2018brainwashed,\u2019 and doesn\u2019t know it or, worse, doesn\u2019t care. How was American slavery enforced? Not only with the whip and chain but by taking away the slaves\u2019 native language. It works.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In an interview with Ann Friedman, Chris Kraus explains how her novel <em>I Love Dick <\/em>emerged from an antipathy toward the relentless you-go-girl positivity that characterized the feminism of the nineties: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2017\/06\/chris-kraus-in-conversation-with-ann-friedman.html\" target=\"_blank\">I never bought into any of the sort of positivity<\/a>. I was of an era where New Age came along, and I found that so deeply repugnant, and I wrote about it. When I wrote\u00a0<em>I Love Dick<\/em>, it\u2019s not as if\u2014I mean, I\u2019ve never put myself forward as any kind of political leader or cultural critic or even cultural theorist. I was just writing a book \u2026 I felt like my goal was to put everything on the table that was transacted under the table. There\u2019s this kind of gender romantic comedy on the surface of it, but really it\u2019s about power. And not even personal dynamic power; more like economic power and cultural-politics power, and how things are transacted. I think the book asks literally in the middle, \u2018Who gets to speak and why is the only question.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s arts and culture roundup: the grossest trend of the French Enlightenment; Iran\u2019s cavalier approach to copyright; 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":[29307,8960,6604,869,21573,29305,23742,19734,687,29306,13829],"class_list":["post-112054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-caca-dauphin","tag-chris-kraus","tag-colors","tag-english","tag-enlightenment","tag-fashions","tag-i-love-dick","tag-kmart","tag-language","tag-prince-poo","tag-trends"],"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>When \u201cCaca-Dauphin\u201d\u2014the Color of the Prince\u2019s Poo\u2014Was All the Rage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture roundup: the grossest trend of the French Enlightenment; 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