{"id":87890,"date":"2015-07-17T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T12:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=87890"},"modified":"2015-07-17T10:53:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T14:53:22","slug":"tickle-the-feline-ivories-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/17\/tickle-the-feline-ivories-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Tickle the Feline Ivories, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_87892\" style=\"width: 619px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/catpiano.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87892\" class=\"wp-image-87892 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/catpiano.png\" alt=\"catpiano\" width=\"609\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/catpiano.png 609w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/catpiano-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-87892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration of the cat piano from <i>La Nature<\/i>, vol. 11, 1883.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Earlier this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-unprotected-life?intcid=mod-latest\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Antrim gave a commencement speech<\/a> at Woodberry Forest School. His subject was \u201cthe unprotected life\u201d and coping with its devastations. For years after a long suicidal depression, he said, \u201cI did not write. It was enough to be restored, and I deeply and sincerely regretted ever writing at all. I\u2019d seen what it could do, what my own choices, my own work, had done to me. I was afraid of what I might write, and afraid, too, that, were I to sit down to it, were I to try, I would only learn that I was broken, and that it was no longer possible for me to bring out a word.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Time was, if you didn\u2019t like any of the real musical instruments out there in the world, you\u2019d just make one up in writing. <a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/2015\/07\/15\/cat-pianos-sound-houses-and-other-imaginary-musical-instruments\/\" target=\"_blank\">The rich history of \u201cfictophones\u201d\u2014imaginary musical instruments<\/a>\u2014includes Francis Bacon\u2019s pluperfect sound-houses (\u201cwhere we practice and demonstrate all sounds and their generation\u201d), the tublo cochleato (an enormous French horn-ish megaphone thing for amplifying the voice), and the torturetron (an organ that sends spikes into the sides of anyone near it, thus adding their pained groans to its own sounds). Best of all, though, is the cat piano, \u201ca set of cats arrayed as sound-producing elements to be activated by the fingers,\u201d which dates to the sixteenth century and was rumored to have cured an Italian prince of his melancholia.<\/li>\n<li>Information overload is often depicted as one of the most tragic fates of the media age, anathema to all who prize the human condition. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guernicamag.com\/features\/stars-in-my-pocket-like-bits-of-data\/\" target=\"_blank\">But it could be pretty good for poets, who can drown themselves in the \u201cinformation sublime\u201d<\/a>: \u201cPoets have not been passive victims of the proliferation of information, but rather have actively participated in\u2014sometimes benefiting from, sometimes implicitly advocating, sometimes resisting\u2014that proliferation \u2026 Poetries of information overload\u2014by which I mean poetries and poems that relate either formally or historically to information saturation\u2014demonstrate an extraordinary range of innovative responses to changing technological conditions.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in the shifting sands of interlingual communication: German phrases have begun to yield to their English equivalents in interesting, not to say insidious, ways. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2015\/07\/johnson-influence-english\" target=\"_blank\">Germans are noticing that English is changing their fixed phrases, and even grammar<\/a>. In English, something \u2018makes sense.\u2019 For Germans, though, \u2018es\u00a0<em>hat <\/em>Sinn\u2019 (it\u00a0<em>has<\/em>\u00a0sense) or \u2018es ist sinvoll\u2019 (it\u2019s sensible). The German is actually more logical. How, as in English, is something sensible actually\u00a0<em>making\u00a0<\/em>sense? The question is unanswerable; language is weird, and idioms especially. But nonetheless, many Germans are starting to say\u00a0<em>es macht Sinn<\/em>, a loan-translation straight from English. Germans are proud of being thoughtful and logical; the idea that making sense is something they would have to borrow from the English might give a traditionalist the shivers.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>New York has a long, sad history of demolishing architectural wonders: the original Penn Station, the Roxy Theatre, St. John\u2019s Church, the City Hall Post Office. The establishment, in 1965, of the Landmarks Preservation Commission did something to stop the destruction, but it was late in coming\u2014a new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/gallery\/2015\/jul\/12\/landmarks-vanishing-city\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saving Place: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks<\/a>,\u201d reminds of all that\u2019s been lost.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Donald Antrim gave a commencement speech at Woodberry Forest School. His subject was \u201cthe unprotected life\u201d and coping with its devastations. For years after a long suicidal depression, he said, \u201cI did not write. It was enough to be restored, and I deeply and sincerely regretted ever writing at all. 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