{"id":86574,"date":"2015-06-11T08:52:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T12:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=86574"},"modified":"2015-06-11T10:22:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T14:22:35","slug":"who-does-this-alice-think-she-is-anyway-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/11\/who-does-this-alice-think-she-is-anyway-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Does This Alice Think She <i>Is<\/i>, Anyway? and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_86576\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/john_tenniel_-_illustration_from_the_nursery_alice_1890_-_c03757_07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86576\" class=\"wp-image-86576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/john_tenniel_-_illustration_from_the_nursery_alice_1890_-_c03757_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/john_tenniel_-_illustration_from_the_nursery_alice_1890_-_c03757_07.jpg 1698w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/john_tenniel_-_illustration_from_the_nursery_alice_1890_-_c03757_07-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/john_tenniel_-_illustration_from_the_nursery_alice_1890_-_c03757_07-1024x756.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-86576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration by John Tenniel for <i>The Nursery \u201cAlice,\u201d<\/i> 1890.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Alice, of Wonderland fame, has osmosed right on into the culture and found a life of her own; we no longer need to read Lewis Carroll\u2019s books to feel that we know her. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/06\/08\/go-ask-alice-a-critic-at-large-lane\" target=\"_blank\">we should read Carroll<\/a>\u2014there\u2019s a certain amount of drift between his Wonderland and the one we think we understand. \u201cConversations about what is real, what is possible, and how rubbery the rules that govern such distinctions turn out to be abound in the tales of Alice. Yet they are sold as children\u2019s books, and rightly so. A philosopher will ask how the identity of the self can be preserved amid the ceaseless flux of experience, but a child\u2014especially a child who is growing so fast that she suddenly fills an entire room\u2014will ask more urgently, as Alice does, \u2018<em>Was<\/em> I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different.\u2019 Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>This Saturday marks\u00a0Yeats\u2019s sesquicentennial, an occasion celebrated easily enough by reading his poems\u2014but why not read his plays, which are always given short shrift among his work? In a way, they anticipated Beckett: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/no-wb-yeats-no-samuel-beckett-fintan-o-toole-on-why-we-mustn-t-forget-the-poet-s-plays-1.2241559\" target=\"_blank\">What happens in a Yeats play can be startling<\/a>. <em>Purgatory<\/em>, for example, verges on the lurid. Its material is the rough red wine of sex and violence: a woman\u2019s lust for her groom and their son\u2019s murderous determination to extirpate her sin in blood. Yeats\u2019s genius is to distill that red wine into a fine but heady spirit, a short, incredibly potent theatrical essence that goes straight to both the head and the guts.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Since Jerry Seinfeld declared, earlier this week, that he no longer plays college campuses because they\u2019re \u201ctoo P.C.\u201d\u2014such a taboo-buster, that Seinfeld, with his wry observations!\u2014many have asked if comedy is in jeopardy. They often lean on the same tired rhetoric about laughter\u2019s potential as a \u201cunifying force\u201d; why? \u201cComedy isn\u2019t <em>supposed<\/em> to be anything, except what the comedian tries to make it\u2014harmless, mean, political, dirty, dumb. You wouldn\u2019t say that music or fiction are \u2018supposed\u2019 to be anything; so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebaffler.com\/blog\/shutting\/\" target=\"_blank\">why do we saddle all comedy with a curative democratic mission<\/a>? Too often we view comedy as a craft, a service brought to us by cheerful comfort-workers, more than the work of serious artists. Thus, when they don\u2019t comfort us, we want to complain to the manager.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI can remember in the Fifties when Goatman would come by, up near Arab, Ala. The first time I ever saw him we were picking cotton in the fields near Arab and he was coming down the road. You could hear him coming a mile away with all the bells and all the pots and pans rattling. People would come by and say, \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordamerican.org\/item\/609-singing-from-the-deep-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Goatman\u2019s coming! Goatman\u2019s coming!<\/a>\u2019 We\u2019d all rush to the end of the cotton row to watch Goatman go by.\u201d That\u2019s Ansel Elkins, quoting her father in a new interview about her poems and the South.<\/li>\n<li>Chinese publishers <a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2015\/06\/05\/chinese-censorship-western-books-where-is-the-outrage\/\" target=\"_blank\">routinely censor their translations of Western books<\/a>\u2014and the West just as routinely greets this news with a small shrug. \u201cAs the anecdotal evidence started to accumulate, it became clear that though cuts tended to be surgically precise, they were also extremely common. Only rarely was there outrage. Many were fatigued by the idea of having to police all their overseas editions. With international publishing, they argued, something is always going to get lost in translation. Many had simply decided to not worry about it.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice, of Wonderland fame, has osmosed right on into the culture and found a life of her own; we no longer need to read Lewis Carroll\u2019s books to feel that we know her. 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