{"id":81574,"date":"2015-01-14T09:30:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T14:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=81574"},"modified":"2015-01-14T10:55:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T15:55:12","slug":"the-bleared-white-visage-of-a-sunless-winter-day-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/14\/the-bleared-white-visage-of-a-sunless-winter-day-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bleared White Visage of a Sunless Winter Day, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_81575\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/karl_hagemeister_-_havelufer_mit_kahn_im_schneetreiben_1895.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81575\" class=\"wp-image-81575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/karl_hagemeister_-_havelufer_mit_kahn_im_schneetreiben_1895.jpg\" alt=\"Karl_Hagemeister_-_Havelufer_mit_Kahn_im_Schneetreiben_(1895)\" width=\"600\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karl Hagemeister, <i>Havelufer mit Kahn im Schneetreiben<\/i>, 1895.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/jan\/14\/which-thomas-hardy-novel-is-the-bleakest-infographic?utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it\" target=\"_blank\">Which Thomas Hardy novel is the bleakest<\/a>? A data-driven study looks at such criteria as \u201cbleak events\u201d (unrequited love, grinding poverty, animal genitalia-related injury), \u201cbleakest words\u201d (<em>poor<\/em>, <em>alone<\/em>, <em>dead<\/em>), and \u201cbleakest quotes\u201d (\u201cThe bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child\u201d).<\/li>\n<li>Let\u2019s keep things bleak and remind ourselves that the Internet isn\u2019t killing the culture\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/books\/2015\/01\/culture_crash_the_killing_of_the_creative_class_reviewed.single.html?utm_content=bufferb350b&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">it\u2019s always been next to impossible to make a living in the arts<\/a>. \u201c\u2018You can make a killing in the theatre, but not a living,\u2019 the playwright Robert Anderson is reported to have said in the mid-1950s\u2014at the height, in other words, of government intervention and middlebrow respect for art.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Bleaker still: \u201c\u2009\u2018Brand\u2019 may be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/jan\/13\/publish-brand-literature-hilary-mantel-jk-rowling\" target=\"_blank\">an ugly word when applied to an author<\/a>, literary agent Jonny Geller acknowledged, but it is only a shorthand for a way in which publishers are attempting to hold on to the reading public at a time when sales of print books are flat and electronic gadgets vie for readers\u2019 attention.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Because we\u2019ve got a theme going, let\u2019s investigate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/flu-has-been-making-people-sick-least-500-years-180953837\/?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;no-ist\" target=\"_blank\">the history of influenza<\/a>. \u201cSome medical historians say that the virus goes back even further than the sixteenth\u00a0century and into antiquity. They\u00a0point\u00a0to a suspiciously flu-like illness mentioned in writings dating as far back as 412 <small>B.C.<\/small> \u00a0Reports of \u2018a certain evil and unheard of cough\u2019\u00a0spreading through Europe in December 1173\u00a0cause\u00a0some to believe flu pandemics have been around since the Middle Ages.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>And just to send it on home, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/binding-books-with-human-skin-135?utm_source=vicetwitterus\" target=\"_blank\">it\u2019s time to learn about anthropodermic bibliopegy, the art of making books from skin<\/a>. For instance, \u201cBurke and Hare were two serial killers in the early nineteenth century. They killed seventeen people. Essentially they were posing as body snatchers, but actually they were just killing everybody and selling the bodies to anatomists for dissection. So they\u2019re caught, and Hare turns King\u2019s evidence and Burke goes down for the crime. As added punishment, he is publicly dissected \u2026 They also took his skin and created all of these objects from it. One of the objects is a pocketbook.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which Thomas Hardy novel is the bleakest? A data-driven study looks at such criteria as \u201cbleak events\u201d (unrequited love, grinding poverty, animal genitalia-related injury), \u201cbleakest words\u201d (poor, alone, dead), and \u201cbleakest quotes\u201d (\u201cThe bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child\u201d). Let\u2019s keep things bleak and remind ourselves that the [&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":[11477,15,16603,15253,16602,16600,16601,16599,7859,10033],"class_list":["post-81574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-anthropodermic-bibliopegy","tag-arts","tag-bleakness","tag-branding","tag-influenza","tag-robert-anderson","tag-sales","tag-survival","tag-thomas-hardy","tag-winter"],"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>Which Thomas Hardy Novel Is the Bleakest?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Criteria include bleak events, bleakest words, and bleakest quotes: \u201cThe bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/14\/the-bleared-white-visage-of-a-sunless-winter-day-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Bleared White Visage of a Sunless Winter Day, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"January 14, 2015 \u2013 Which Thomas Hardy novel is the bleakest? 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