{"id":76982,"date":"2014-09-19T09:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=76982"},"modified":"2014-09-19T09:51:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T13:51:47","slug":"boswells-prurient-pasttime-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/19\/boswells-prurient-pasttime-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Boswell\u2019s Prurient Pastime, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/the_manner_of_execution_at_tyburn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-76983 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/the_manner_of_execution_at_tyburn.jpg\" alt=\"The_Manner_of_Execution_at_Tyburn\" width=\"600\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why is our vice president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/biden-tamps-down-2016-speculation-during-iowa-visit\" target=\"_blank\">quoting Thomas Pynchon<\/a>? In a speech in Des Moines, Joe Biden expounded on this bit of vintage paranoia, from <em>Gravity\u2019s Rainbow<\/em>: \u201cIf they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don\u2019t have to worry about answers.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>James Boswell had more hobbies than just following around Samuel Johnson; he was also \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/review_of_books\/article\/boswells-postcards-from-a-hanging\/15759#.VBhusfldV8G\" target=\"_blank\">an inveterate execution goer in an age when such activity was considered prurient for a gentleman<\/a> \u2026 Boswell diligently noted the names and crimes of the condemned: robbery, theft, escaping a prison hulk, forgery and murder. He describes a brother and sister convicted of burglary who met their deaths holding hands, only to be separated when they were cut down from the gallows.\u201d He attended at least twenty-one executions, though they gave him nightmares and depressed him. The best hobbies (e.g., writing) often do.<\/li>\n<li>At a recent school-board meeting in Murphy, Oregon: fuddy-duddies. \u201cSome parents complained Tuesday night that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbian.com\/news\/2014\/sep\/18\/book-ignites-controversy-at-oregon-board-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\">students should not be allowed to read the book <em>Persepolis<\/em><\/a> without parental approval. The novel by Marjane Satrapi contains coarse language and scenes of torture, and it\u2019s in high school libraries within the Three Rivers School District in southwest Oregon.\u201d (\u201cI\u2019m boiling mad,\u201d one parent said.)<\/li>\n<li>The world\u2019s oldest joke book, the <em>Philogelos<\/em>, dates to maybe the fourth century <small>AD<\/small>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/cartoons\/bob-mankoff\/oldest-jokes-meet-crowdsourced-wisdom-internet\" target=\"_blank\">but are its jokes funny today<\/a>? The Internet has delivered its unassailable verdict: \u201ckind of, sometimes.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve mentioned the Write a House project in this space before: it offers authors lifelong residencies in Detroit by renovating vacant homes and then simply giving them to writers. <a href=\"http:\/\/writeahouse.com\/poet-writes-her-way-to-a-free-home-in-detroit-casey-rocheteau-to-be-celebrated-this-friday\/\" target=\"_blank\">Now the first winner has been announced<\/a>: the poet Casey Rocheteau, from Brooklyn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is our vice president quoting Thomas Pynchon? 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