{"id":80819,"date":"2014-12-15T09:30:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T14:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=80819"},"modified":"2014-12-15T10:12:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T15:12:53","slug":"a-few-leaves-too-many-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/15\/a-few-leaves-too-many-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Few Leaves Too Many,\u201d and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_80820\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/paul_cezanne_-_the_bare_trees_at_jas_de_bouffan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80820\" class=\"wp-image-80820\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/paul_cezanne_-_the_bare_trees_at_jas_de_bouffan.jpg\" alt=\"Paul_Cezanne_-_The_Bare_Trees_at_Jas_de_Bouffan\" width=\"600\" height=\"446\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-80820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul C\u00e9zanne, <i>The Bare Trees at Jas de Bouffan<\/i>, 1885\u201386.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Muldoon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/14\/books\/review\/the-letters-and-poems-of-samuel-beckett.html\" target=\"_blank\">on Beckett\u2019s collected letters<\/a>: \u201cThe letters collected here come in the wake of the success, in 1955, of the English version of <em>Waiting for Godot<\/em>, the play in which, according to the critic Vivian Mercier, \u2018nothing happens, twice.\u2019 One of the few things that do happen is that the tree that\u2019s barren in Act I develops some foliage in Act II. But, as the high priest of lessness writes to the director Jerzy Krecz\u00admar of the 1957 Warsaw production\u2014\u2018The tree is perfect (perhaps a few leaves too many in the second act!)\u2019\u2014even that mustn\u2019t be overstated.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><em>Merriam-Webster<\/em>\u2019s word of the year is \u2026 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/merriam-webster-names-culture-word-082532788.html\" target=\"_blank\">culture<\/a><\/em>. \u201cWhen you put it next to another word it means something very different,\u201d their editor at large said.<\/li>\n<li>The science of mondegreens: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/science\/maria-konnikova\/science-misheard-lyrics-mondegreens?mbid=social_twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Why do we mishear lyrics<\/a>? (\u201cYou\u2019re much more likely to mishear \u2018Cry Me a River\u2019 as \u2018Crimean River\u2019 if you\u2019ve recently been discussing the situation in Ukraine.\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2014\/dec\/04\/good-characters-bad-fiction-stories-greatest-authors\" target=\"_blank\">How can a writer make goodness interesting<\/a>? George Eliot tried to do so by examining redemption in Silas Marner. The only problem is that the narrative jumps ahead, giving us the miserly misanthrope before and the radiant saint after he adopts a lost child \u2026 But where are the unheroic, sane, consistent, quiet goodnesses? As literature thrives on conflict, the idea of a sequestered, sanguine goodness might seem impossible.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The language of food: a new book crunches the data on the descriptions of 650,000 dishes from 6,500 menus. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/books-and-arts\/21635970-food-menus-and-satisfied-customers-tasty-talk\" target=\"_blank\">Satisfied customers can be remarkably price-sensitive<\/a>, if unconsciously so. The pleasures of expensive food are equated with sex; foie gras is seared \u2018seductively\u2019 and apple tart is \u2018orgasmic.\u2019 Cheap food, by contrast, is compared to drugs. Reviewers demand a \u2018fix\u2019 of fried chicken and liken cupcakes to crack.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Muldoon on Beckett\u2019s collected letters: \u201cThe letters collected here come in the wake of the success, in 1955, of the English version of Waiting for Godot, the play in which, according to the critic Vivian Mercier, \u2018nothing happens, twice.\u2019 One of the few things that do happen is that the tree that\u2019s barren in 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