{"id":60911,"date":"2013-10-03T09:51:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T13:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=60911"},"modified":"2013-10-03T14:06:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T18:06:39","slug":"come-play-with-us-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/03\/come-play-with-us-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Play with Us, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/stanleylarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/stanleylarge.jpg\" alt=\"stanleylarge\" width=\"600\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60912\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>\u201cIt\u2019s not like Klingon or anything. It is reasonable to believe it once existed. But nobody every wrote it down so we don\u2019t know exactly what \u2018it\u2019 really was. Instead, what we know is that there are hundreds of languages that share similarities in syntax and vocabulary, suggesting that they all evolved from a common ancestor.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/09\/30\/listen-to-a-story-told-in-a-60.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here is a story in<\/a> Proto-Indo-European, a speculative attempt by linguists to re-create the ancient root language.<\/li>\n<li>The Stanley Hotel of Estes Park, Colorado\u2014aka, the inspiration for <em>The Shining<\/em>\u2014is digging up its pet cemetery to make way for a \u201cwedding and corporate retreat pavilion.\u201d Which, we must say, sounds more lucrative, even if <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/hotel-that-inspired-the-shining-plans-to-dig-up-its-pet-1413321560\" target=\"_blank\">a psychic<\/a> declares it a bad idea. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/03\/books\/tom-clancy-best-selling-novelist-of-military-thrillers-dies-at-66.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=1&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Clancy<\/a> has died, at the age of sixty-six.<\/li>\n<li>Dave Eggers says he\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/entertainment\/2013\/10\/dave-eggers-says-hes-never-heard-book-he-supposedly-plagiarized\/70120\/\" target=\"_blank\">never heard of<\/a> the book he allegedly plagiarized.<\/li>\n<li>A new edition of Chairman Mao\u2019s <em>Little Red Book<\/em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/the-little-red-book-will-be-republished-in-china\/\" target=\"_blank\">being officially rereleased in China<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not like Klingon or anything. It is reasonable to believe it once existed. But nobody every wrote it down so we don\u2019t know exactly what \u2018it\u2019 really was. 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