{"id":77563,"date":"2014-10-02T09:30:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T13:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=77563"},"modified":"2014-10-03T10:45:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T14:45:55","slug":"oh-shit-there-are-robots-in-the-library-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/02\/oh-shit-there-are-robots-in-the-library-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Shit, There Are Robots in the Library, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_77565\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/la-et-jc-i-library-robot-20141001-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77565\" class=\"wp-image-77565\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/la-et-jc-i-library-robot-20141001-001.jpg\" alt=\"la-et-jc-i-library-robot-20141001-001\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-77565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy and Vincent: Friends or foes? Only time will tell. Photo: Picasa\/Aldebaran<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Soon to appear at the library in Westport, Connecticut: robots,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/coming-soon-to-the-library-humanoid-robots-1412015687\" target=\"_blank\">two of them<\/a>. \u201cVincent\u201d and \u201cNancy\u201d \u201chave blinking eyes and an unnerving way of looking quizzically in the direction of whoever is speaking. They walk, dance, and can talk in nineteen different languages \u2026 [they] can recognize faces and detect where sound is coming from.\u201d Ostensibly, the pair will help patrons find books and will serve as the centerpiece of a new robotics workshop. But whether these unfeeling golems are here to help or to serve as ruthless, lethal agents of the state remains to be seen. Anyone with late fees is advised to proceed with extreme caution.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of things you\u2019re powerless to stop, however much you may wish to: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/oct\/01\/crime-and-punishment-musical-moscow-stage\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Punishment, the Musical<\/a><\/em>. (\u201cI wouldn\u2019t call it a rock-opera as such,\u201d its director said.)<\/li>\n<li>Victor Hugo\u2019s <em>The Man Who Laughs <\/em>\u201cis not an easy read. It was written late in Victor Hugo\u2019s career when he was living in exile on Guernsey, and his contemporaries dismissed it as an inferior work.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/david-hine\/victor-hugo-graphic-novel_b_5889184.html?&amp;ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000031\" target=\"_blank\">And yet it seems to have plenty going for it<\/a> in the plot department: it\u2019s \u201cthe story of a young man who is kidnapped, mutilated and sold to travelling entertainers, yet who retains his integrity and his dignity through the love of his adoptive \u2018family,\u2019 the eccentric philosopher Ursus, his pet wolf Homo, and the beautiful blind girl, Dea.\u201d Sold.<\/li>\n<li>Merritt Tierce, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/16\/freedom-to-fuck-up-an-interview-with-merritt-tierce\/\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed here last month<\/a>, used to work at an upscale Dallas steak house, as does the protagonist in her debut novel. On two occasions, Tierce served Rush Limbaugh, who \u201cleft her $2,000 tips on modest-size checks, once with twenty $100 bills. \u2018That was like blood money to me,\u2019 says Tierce, who does not share Limbaugh\u2019s social views.\u201d So <a href=\"http:\/\/artsblog.dallasnews.com\/2014\/09\/how-a-piece-of-rush-limbaughs-riches-went-to-abortion-rights-courtesy-of-dallas-author-merritt-tierce.html\/\" target=\"_blank\">she gave it all to an abortion-rights group<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The trend of the \u201cpassport professor\u201d: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/119668\/exodus-phds-causing-brain-drain-us\" target=\"_blank\">Why are so many Ph.D.s leaving America<\/a>? (Why <em>aren\u2019t <\/em>they? you might say.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon to appear at the library in Westport, Connecticut: robots,\u00a0two of them. \u201cVincent\u201d and \u201cNancy\u201d \u201chave blinking eyes and an unnerving way of looking quizzically in the direction of whoever is speaking. They walk, dance, and can talk in nineteen different languages \u2026 [they] can recognize faces and detect where sound is coming from.\u201d Ostensibly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[7106,7148,15320,15498,7611,15497,9461],"class_list":["post-77563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-crime-and-punishment","tag-libraries","tag-merritt-tierce","tag-passport-professors","tag-robots","tag-rush-limbaugh","tag-victor-hugo"],"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>The Morning News Roundup for October 2, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"October 2, 2014 \u2013 Soon to appear at the library 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