{"id":149277,"date":"2020-11-24T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=149277"},"modified":"2020-11-24T12:51:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T17:51:18","slug":"redux-a-dining-room-deserted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/24\/redux-a-dining-room-deserted\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: A Dining Room Deserted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dkY3AH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_149279\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2719\/the-art-of-poetry-no-37-derek-walcott\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149279\" class=\"wp-image-149279 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/walcott.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/walcott.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/walcott-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/walcott-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-149279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derek Walcott, ca. 2012. Photo: Jorge Mej\u00eda Peralta.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week, <em>The Paris Review<\/em> approaches this strange and lonely holiday season with a feeling of gratitude. Read on for Derek Walcott\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2719\/the-art-of-poetry-no-37-derek-walcott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art of Poetry interview<\/a>, Nick Fuller Googins\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7375\/the-doors-nick-fuller-googins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Doors<\/a>,\u201d and Pablo Neruda\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7138\/melancholy-inside-families-pablo-neruda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melancholy inside Families<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/TPR\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=ENAPRFX&amp;type=S&amp;gift_key=TESTFXG&amp;utm_source=ReduxBlogpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>?\u00a0Or take advantage of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/tpr\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=GRNPREM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new subscription bundle<\/a>, bringing you four issues of the print magazine, access to our full sixty-seven-year digital archive, and our new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/collections\/accessories\/products\/our-new-green-and-lavender-tote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TriBeCa tote<\/a>\u00a0for only $69 (plus free shipping!). And for as long as we\u2019re flattening the curve,\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0will be sending out a new weekly newsletter, The Art of Distance, featuring unlocked archival selections, dispatches from the\u00a0<em>Daily<\/em>, and efforts from our peer organizations. Read the latest edition\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/theparisreview.org\/the-art-of-distance-no-136506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, and then\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=35491ea532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign up for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2719\/the-art-of-poetry-no-37-derek-walcott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Derek Walcott, The Art of Poetry No. 37<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 101, Winter 1986<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ultimately, it\u2019s what Yeats says: \u201cSuch a sweetness flows into the breast that we laugh at everything and everything we look upon is blessed.\u201d That\u2019s always there. It\u2019s a benediction, a transference. It\u2019s gratitude, really. The more of that a poet keeps, the more genuine his nature. I\u2019ve always felt that sense of gratitude. I\u2019ve never felt equal to it in terms of my writing, but I\u2019ve never felt that I was ever less than that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_149278\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7375\/the-doors-nick-fuller-googins\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149278\" class=\"wp-image-149278 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/googins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/googins.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/googins-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/googins-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-149278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Aaron Burden. CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7375\/the-doors-nick-fuller-googins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Doors<\/a><br \/>\nBy Nick Fuller Googins<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 228, Spring 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niko is a natural. With his help the beginners improve their line by leaps and bounds for instance facing the front most of the time now and usually remembering to hold the railing on the stairs. I teach him my modified sleeper hold. Double-teaming the beginners we have them snoring by one thirty every afternoon sometimes even earlier. Then we sit in the quiet nap-time darkness and guard against Nightworld and yes it is true that I would not mind if Niko thanked me for taking him under my wing but I realize that I never thanked him for taking me under his wing. And maybe our mutual gratitude is a silently understood kind of mutual gratitude but then again what if it is not?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks brother, I say whispering so as not to wake the beginners.<\/p>\n<p>For what? he whispers back.<\/p>\n<p>For everything, I say.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t say that, he says.<\/p>\n<p>But I mean it, I say.<\/p>\n<p>So do I, he says.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t push him. The gymnasium lights are dim but not so dim that they don\u2019t reflect a little watery in his eyes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7138\/melancholy-inside-families-pablo-neruda\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-149280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/neruda.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/neruda.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/neruda-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/neruda-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7138\/melancholy-inside-families-pablo-neruda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melancholy inside Families<\/a><br \/>\nBy Pablo Neruda<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 39, Fall 1966<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I keep a blue bottle.<br \/>\nInside it an ear and a portrait.<br \/>\nWhen the night dominates<br \/>\nthe feathers of the owl,<br \/>\nwhen the hoarse cherry tree<br \/>\nrips out its lips and makes menacing gestures<br \/>\nwith rinds which the ocean wind often perforates\u2014<br \/>\nthen I know that there are immense expanses hidden from us,<br \/>\nquartz in slugs,<br \/>\nooze,<br \/>\nblue waters for a battle,<br \/>\nmuch silence, many ore-veins<br \/>\nof withdrawals and camphor,<br \/>\nfallen things, medallions, kindnesses,<br \/>\nparachutes, kisses.<\/p>\n<p>It is only the passage from one day to another,<br \/>\na single bottle moving over the seas,<br \/>\nand a dining room where roses arrive,<br \/>\na dining room deserted<br \/>\nas a fish-bone: I am speaking of<br \/>\na smashed cup, a curtain, at the end<br \/>\nof a deserted room through which a river passes<br \/>\ndragging along the stones. It is a house<br \/>\nset on the foundations of the rain,<br \/>\na house of two floors with the required number of windows,<br \/>\nand climbing vines faithful in every particular \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>And to read more from the\u00a0<\/em>Paris Review<em>\u00a0archives, make sure to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/TPR\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=ENAPRFX&amp;type=S&amp;gift_key=TESTFXG&amp;utm_source=ReduxBlogpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe<\/a>! In addition to four print issues per year, you\u2019ll also receive complete digital access to our sixty-seven years\u2019 worth of archives<\/em><em>. 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