{"id":87089,"date":"2015-06-29T08:17:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T12:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=87089"},"modified":"2015-06-29T10:01:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T14:01:39","slug":"immoral-situations-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/29\/immoral-situations-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Immoral Situations, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_87090\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tess2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87090\" class=\"wp-image-87090\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tess2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tess2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tess2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-87090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tess harassed by Alec D&#8217;Urberville, from the monthly serialization of <i>Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles<\/i> in <i>The Graphic<\/i>, 1891.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Ken Kalfus is on his way to the bookstore, and he\u2019s not having a swell time\u2014because how can you, anymore? \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/a-book-buyers-lament\" target=\"_blank\">Bookstores have become places of regret and shame<\/a>. We once enjoyed shopping in them or simply looking in their windows, back in the days when they were ordinary retail establishments. They were like stores that sold shoes or hats, but with more appealing merchandise. Now they\u2019ve taken on moral significance. Buying a book and choosing the place to do so involve delicate and complicated considerations. You may fail to do the right thing.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Philip Larkin will soon be honored with a flagstone at Poets\u2019 Corner in Westminster Abbey\u2014a kind of rarefied Walk of Fame where he\u2019ll join such august forebears as Chaucer, Dickens, and Ted Hughes. Asterisk: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2015\/06\/philip-larkin\" target=\"_blank\">Larkin regarded his fellow flagstoners, to a one, as hacks<\/a>. \u201cWe do not find any great striving towards artistic greatness,\u201d he said of <em>The Canterbury Tales<\/em>; Dickens was \u201chectic, nervy, panic-stricken,\u201d with \u201cqueer names, queer characters\u201d; and Hughes he regarded as simply \u201cno good at all.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>From the annals of censorship: Thomas Hardy\u2019s original manuscript for <em>Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/mary-wellesley\/too-much-succulence\/\" target=\"_blank\">fell afoul of the morality police in strange ways<\/a>. <em>Macmillan\u2019s Magazine<\/em>, which rejected the novel for its \u201cimmoral situations,\u201d thought Hardy overused the word <em>succulent<\/em>: \u201cPerhaps I might say that the general impression left on me by reading your story \u2026 is one of rather too much succulence.\u201d Another magazine, <em>Graphic<\/em>, wouldn\u2019t serialize it until Hardy removed \u201creferences to characters traveling on a Sunday and to rewrite the scene in which Angel Clare carries Tess and her fellow milkmaids over a stream\u2014one of the novel\u2019s great moments of muted desire\u2014so that he instead pushed her across in a wheelbarrow.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Douglas Coupland\u2019s <em>Microserfs<\/em> was a strange book when it appeared in 1995\u2014it\u2019s even stranger now. A novel based on a piece he\u2019d reported for <em>Wired<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/grantland.com\/hollywood-prospectus\/silicon-valley-halt-catch-fire-microserfs-douglas-coupland\/\" target=\"_blank\">it endorses a kind of techno-utopia in which start-ups can give real meaning to life<\/a>, but \u201cthe possibility that work within a capitalist system, no matter how creative and freeform and unlike what your parents did, might be fundamentally incompatible with self-actualization and spiritual fulfillment is not on the table.\u201d And the Internet is only a glimmer, if not a mirage, on the horizon. \u201cThis highway,\u201d one character asks of the Information Superhighway: \u201cIs it a joke? You hear so much about it, but really, what <em>is <\/em>it \u2026 The media has gone berserk with Net-this and Net-that. It\u2019s a bit much. The Net is cool, but not <em>that cool.<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Nonfiction publishing is full of middlebrow \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/jun\/26\/is-there-a-crisis-in-high-calibre-non-fiction-publishing-sam-leith\" target=\"_blank\">talking-point books<\/a>\u201d: essentially swollen magazine pieces that hang shoddy scholarship on some banal marketing hook. \u201cWe have a flock of books arguing that the internet is either the answer to all our problems or the cause of them; we have scads of books telling us about the importance of mindfulness, or forgetfulness, or distraction, or stress. We have any number about what one recent press release called the \u2018always topical\u2019 debate between science and religion. We have a whole subcategory that concern themselves with \u2018what it means to be human.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Kalfus is on his way to the bookstore, and he\u2019s not having a swell time\u2014because how can you, anymore? \u201cBookstores have become places of regret and shame. We once enjoyed shopping in them or simply looking in their windows, back in the days when they were ordinary retail establishments. 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