{"id":89292,"date":"2015-08-28T09:17:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T13:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=89292"},"modified":"2015-08-28T10:37:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T14:37:37","slug":"let-him-buy-groceries-in-peace-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/28\/let-him-buy-groceries-in-peace-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Him Buy Groceries in Peace, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_89293\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/monoprix1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89293\" class=\"wp-image-89293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/monoprix1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/monoprix1.jpg 3328w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/monoprix1-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/monoprix1-1024x609.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is that the author of <i>The Map and the Territory<\/i> in there?<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in Houellebecq: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/michel-houellebecq-french-satirical-novelist-in-verbal-brawl-with-le-monde-newspaper-10471249.html\" target=\"_blank\">the author has inveighed against <em>Le Monde<\/em>, the French newspaper of record, for publishing a series of unauthorized pieces about him<\/a>. Calling journalists \u201cparasites\u201d and \u201ccockroaches,\u201d Houellebecq dismissed the articles for their \u201cmalicious sneakiness,\u201d noting that he\u2019d refused to meet the reporter and had explicitly instructed his friends not to speak with her. \u201cKnowing which Monoprix I shop in is not a subject of national importance,\u201d he wrote\u2014somewhat mystifyingly, as the <em>Le Monde <\/em>piece made no mention of said Monoprix. (He\u2019s also recently announced <a href=\"http:\/\/theartnewspaper.com\/news\/news\/158700\/\" target=\"_blank\">an exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo<\/a>, in Paris, where he\u2019ll show \u201cphotographs, installations and films, along with commissions by other artists such as Iggy Pop and Robert Combas.\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>Reading: Why bother? What\u2019s all the fuss about? Four new books aim to show that reading makes us thoughtful and empathetic\u2014\u201ctraining\u201d for the art of being human. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/2015\/08\/how-books-help-us-be-better-human-beings\" target=\"_blank\">We might describe it as paideutic criticism<\/a>, the term taken from the ancient Greek idea of <em>paideia\u2014<\/em>the original foundation of humanistic study. <em>Paideia<\/em> meant the pursuit of self-knowledge through examination of the beautiful and the good \u2026 By reading and rereading the classics in the company of these genial guides, Virgils to our Dante, we can, in a more modestly modern way, achieve some similar serenity.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>We can also find <a href=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/magazine\/philosophy\/do-memory-lapses-help-us-to-be-happy\/\" target=\"_blank\">serenity in forgetfulness<\/a>, which allows us to let go of that ultimate nuisance, personal identity: Going along with Locke\u2019s view of memory as identity is the narrative theory of identity\u2014the idea that one forges and maintains an identity by weaving a coherent narrative out of memories, tying one\u2019s present to one\u2019s past. Memory and the process of remembering are essential to this. Forgetting is an enemy, causing narrative gaps and undermining the sense of having a coherent narrative \u2026 Some people court forgetfulness. My students like to quote the old adage that \u2018ignorance is bliss\u2019 when we talk about memory and forgetting; from this they think it follows, as night follows day, that ignorance is to be preferred to knowledge when such knowledge undermines happiness. If forgetfulness serves the goal of bliss, who wouldn\u2019t pursue it?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In the wake of the controversy surrounding Duke and three students who refuse to read Alison Bechdel\u2019s <em>Fun Home<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indyweek.com\/news\/archives\/2015\/08\/26\/disappointed-with-duke-a-former-duke-instructor-talks-about-not-reading-alison-bechdels-fun-home\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Stephenson remembers his time teaching at the university\u2019s Center for Documentary Studies<\/a>: \u201c \u2018There are people teaching at Duke that barely graduated from UNC,\u2019 I\u2019d tell my students on the first day of class. The ones who laughed usually proved to be the more engaged and thoughtful documentarians \u2026 The outlying students\u2014the ones frustrated by the emphasis of their fellow students on linear, pre-professional tracks\u2014tended to find their way to our building, on the wrong side of the tracks, literally \u2026 These three students who are objecting to Bechdel\u2019s book could use a dose of good documentary engagement. (I doubt they would have thought my introductory class joke was funny.) The words <em>document<\/em> and <em>doctor<\/em> come from the same Latin root, <em>docere<\/em>, which means, variously, to teach, to learn, to pay attention, to care, and, ultimately, to heal.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s a highly advanced, deeply treacherous form of storytelling far beyond the realm of mere literature: dating. Specifically, sugar dating, in which courtship between a sugar daddy and a sugar baby is clouded by the exchange of money. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/sugar-daddies-explained\" target=\"_blank\">You can tell yourself whatever story you want, and eventually you&#8217;ll forget you\u2019re telling a story<\/a> and you\u2019ll find yourself in the parking lot of a Pizzeria Uno getting sucked off by someone who thinks she\u2019s getting the better end of the deal. And the worst part is, you\u2019ll think you\u2019re helping her. And she\u2019ll give you that blow job, all the while wondering how she could get so lucky, how you could be so dumb. Everyone gets what they want. And, sure, what\u2019s so wrong with that?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Houellebecq: the author has inveighed against Le Monde, the French newspaper of record, for publishing a series of unauthorized pieces about him. Calling journalists \u201cparasites\u201d and \u201ccockroaches,\u201d Houellebecq dismissed the articles for their \u201cmalicious sneakiness,\u201d noting that he\u2019d refused to meet the reporter and had explicitly instructed his friends not to speak with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[7451,664,13467,15218,19282,822,53,19284,19283],"class_list":["post-89292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-alison-bechdel","tag-dating","tag-empathy","tag-forgetfulness","tag-le-monde","tag-michel-houellebecq","tag-reading","tag-sugar-babies","tag-sugar-daddies"],"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>Why 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