{"id":152365,"date":"2021-05-04T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=152365"},"modified":"2021-05-04T17:29:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T21:29:26","slug":"redux-about-you-i-know-only-the-weight-of-a-little-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/04\/redux-about-you-i-know-only-the-weight-of-a-little-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: About You I Know Only the Weight of a Little Ink"},"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_152371\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/931\/the-art-of-fiction-no-158-shelby-foote\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152371\" class=\"wp-image-152371 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/foote2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/foote2.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/foote2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/foote2-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-152371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelby Foote.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week at <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re spilling ink. Read on for Shelby Foote\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/931\/the-art-of-fiction-no-158-shelby-foote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, A.\u2009S. Byatt\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/fiction\/1722\/the-djinn-in-the-nightingales-eye-a-s-byatt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Djinn in the Nightingale\u2019s Eye<\/a>,\u201d and Jean S\u00e9nac\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2904\/five-poems-jean-senac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Young Deluge<\/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>? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door. Or,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/flex\/TPR\/MAIN\/?utm_source=ReduxBlogpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe to our new bundle<\/a>\u00a0and receive\u00a0<em>Poets at Work<\/em>\u00a0for 25% off.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/931\/the-art-of-fiction-no-158-shelby-foote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shelby Foote, The Art of Fiction No. 158<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 151 (Summer 1999)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p>What precisely is a blotter?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">FOOTE<\/p>\n<p>This is a blotter [<em>pointing<\/em>] and if you haven\u2019t got one you\u2019re up the creek. You use the blotter to keep the ink from being wet on the page. You put the blotter on top and blot the page. I was talking about blotters in an interview, what a hard time I had finding them, and I got a letter from a woman in Mississippi. She said, I have quite a lot of blotters I\u2019ll be glad to send you. So I got blotters galore. Ink is another problem. I got a phone call from a man in Richmond, Virginia who had a good supply of ink in quart bottles. I got three quarts from him, so I\u2019m in good shape on that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_152372\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/fiction\/1722\/the-djinn-in-the-nightingales-eye-a-s-byatt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/byatt.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/byatt.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/byatt-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/byatt-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-152372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Eric Magnan. CC BY-SA 4.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/fiction\/1722\/the-djinn-in-the-nightingales-eye-a-s-byatt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Djinn in the Nightingale\u2019s Eye<\/a><br \/>\nBy A.\u2009S. Byatt<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 133 (Winter 1994)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The phrase was, of course, not her own; she was, as I have said, a being of a secondary order. The phrase was John Mil\u00adton\u2019s, plucked from the air, or the circumambient language, at the height of his powers, to describe the beauty of the primordial coils of the insinuating serpent in the Paradise garden. Gillian Perholt remembered the very day these words had first coiled into shape and risen in beauty from the page, and struck at her, unsuspecting as Eve. There she was, sixteen years old, a golden-haired white virgin with vague blue eyes (she pictured herself so) and there on the ink-stained desk in the dust was the battered emerald-green book, ink-stained too, and second-hand, scribbled across and across by dutiful or impatient female fingers, and everywhere was a smell, still drily pungent, of hot ink and linoleum and dust if not ashes, and there he was, the creature, insolent and lovely before her \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_152373\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2904\/five-poems-jean-senac\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152373\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152373\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/senac.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/senac.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/senac-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/senac-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-152373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Max Stanworth. CC BY 2.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2904\/five-poems-jean-senac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Young Deluge<\/a><br \/>\nBy Jean S\u00e9nac, translated by Mark Polizzotti<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 96 (Summer 1985)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nothing.<br \/>\nAbout you I know only<br \/>\nthe weight of a little ink in a bookseller\u2019s stall<br \/>\nand the rumbling of<br \/>\nkeg-laden trucks on a ramp.<br \/>\n(Curved wood and the dregs of<br \/>\nchildhood you lead me to.<br \/>\nOh, to know nothing.<br \/>\n\u2014 I\u2019ll call your name when your thighs<br \/>\nin hurried strokes weigh blue on the poem<br \/>\nyou dredge from my body.)<br \/>\nI\u2019ll call your name \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed the above, don\u2019t forget 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-eight years\u2019 worth of archives. Or,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/flex\/TPR\/MAIN\/?utm_source=ReduxBlogpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe to our new bundle<\/a>\u00a0and receive\u00a0<\/em>Poets at Work<em> for 25% off.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we\u2019ve lowered the paywall on Shelby Foote\u2019s Art of Fiction interview, a short story by A. S. 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