{"id":83392,"date":"2015-03-06T07:43:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=83392"},"modified":"2015-03-06T10:13:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:13:14","slug":"a-sincere-mustache-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/06\/a-sincere-mustache-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sincere Mustache, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_83394\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mustaches.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83394\" class=\"wp-image-83394 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mustaches.png\" alt=\"mustaches\" width=\"600\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mustaches.png 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mustaches-297x300.png 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-83394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a 1902 newspaper advertisement.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/03\/09\/frame-of-reference-john-mcphee?mbid=social_twitter\" target=\"_blank\">John McPhee on writing, illumination, and mustaches<\/a>: \u201cRobert Bingham, my editor at <em>The New Yorker<\/em> for sixteen years, had a fluorescent, not to mention distinguished, mustache. In some piece or other, early on, I said of a person I was writing about that he had a \u2018sincere\u2019 mustache. This brought Bingham, manuscript in hand, out of his office \u2026 A sincere mustache, Mr. McPhee, a sincere mustache? What does that mean? Was I implying that it is possible to have an insincere mustache? \u2026 Across time, someone came along who had \u2018a no-nonsense mustache,\u2019 and a Great Lakes ship captain who had \u2018a gyroscopic mustache,\u2019 and a North Woodsman who had \u2018a timber-cruiser\u2019s guileless mustache.\u2019 A family practitioner in Maine had \u2018an analgesic mustache,\u2019 another doctor \u2018a soothing mustache,\u2019 and another a mustache that \u2018seems medical, in that it spreads flat beyond the corners of his mouth and suggests no prognosis, positive or negative.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Pop music is heralded as one of life\u2019s simple pleasures: a chance for pure escapism. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/121202\/billboard-and-history-pop-charts-why-are-songs-so-sad?utm_content=buffer72d20&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">Why, then, are so many pop songs really, really, really sad<\/a>? \u201cLove songs have always been more likely to deal with the yearning for love, the complications of love, love\u2019s betrayal, or the loss of love (or even, sometimes, the loss of life) than the fancied bliss of love fulfilled \u2026 a strain of sadness has long been laced through the popular songbook. Music listeners\u2019 likes have never been restricted to things that make them happy.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/mar\/06\/kingsley-amis-irritation-ending-up-martin-craig-brown\" target=\"_blank\">Kingsley Amis\u2019s misanthropic masterwork<\/a>, <em>Ending Up<\/em>: \u201cThe finished product is short and brutal, a series of cackling vignettes of\u00a0man\u2019s cruelty to man, all conveyed in Amis\u2019s crisp, beady prose. It is also very funny, growing funnier with each fresh misery, mishap and atrocity. The blurb on my Penguin edition draws attention to its \u2018humanity,\u2019 but it might more accurately have highlighted its inhumanity: few novels have ever been quite this bleak, quite this nasty.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The impressionists are often derided as \u201cthe painterly equivalent of easy listening,\u201d but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/2015\/03\/how-impressionists-found-new-way-capturing-remarkable-everyday-life\" target=\"_blank\">they still have much to teach us<\/a>: \u201cWhile Degas was in America in 1872 he was much taken with the Southern Creole women, feeling they had \u2018that touch of\u00a0ugliness without which no salvation.\u2019 Let\u2019s not get too politically correct here. His remark has a general application. It speaks to a shared aesthetic disposition. By \u2018ugliness,\u2019 Degas means ordinary life\u2014a girl having her hair combed on a beach; women unperturbed, unself-conscious at their ablutions; a laundress stretching, yawning, another one ironing. They are the painters of modern life, in Baudelaire\u2019s encapsulation. As modern as T. S. Eliot\u2019s woman who yawns and draws her stocking up in \u2018Sweeney Among the Nightingales.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cJane Austen\u2019s earliest writings are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/tls\/public\/article1520420.ece\" target=\"_blank\">violent, restless, anarchic, and exuberantly expressionistic<\/a>. Drunkenness, female brawling, sexual misdemeanor, and murder run riot across their pages.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McPhee on writing, illumination, and mustaches: \u201cRobert Bingham, my editor at The New Yorker for sixteen years, had a fluorescent, not to mention distinguished, mustache. 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