{"id":90322,"date":"2015-09-29T08:59:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T12:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=90322"},"modified":"2015-09-30T12:13:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T16:13:52","slug":"like-everythings-connected-man-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/29\/like-everythings-connected-man-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Like, Everything\u2019s Connected, Man, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_90324\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/150924_fut_gale1815.jpg.crop_.promovar-mediumlarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90324\" class=\"wp-image-90324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/150924_fut_gale1815.jpg.crop_.promovar-mediumlarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/150924_fut_gale1815.jpg.crop_.promovar-mediumlarge.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/150924_fut_gale1815.jpg.crop_.promovar-mediumlarge-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-90324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration from the Rhode Island Historical Society depicting 1815\u2019s Great September Gale.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Carmen Balcells, who died earlier this month, was \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-woman-behind-latin-americas-literary-boom\" target=\"_blank\">a literary superagent with a license to kill, like James Bond<\/a>.\u201d (NB: she never murdered anyone. Some also referred to her, equally outlandishly, as \u201cBig Mama.\u201d) She changed Spanish-language publishing, launching the careers of Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Jos\u00e9 Donoso, and Julio Cort\u00e1zar, among others. \u201cThe moment \u2026 has been known ever since as the \u2018Latin American Literary Boom\u2019 \u2026 For writers coming of age during and after the Boom, invoking Balcells became <em>de rigueur<\/em>, the ultimate literary credential, because it linked them to a special kind of origin story.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A couple centuries ago, in 1815, a real ballbuster of a storm swept through New England. Recollections of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2015\/09\/the_great_september_gale_of_1815_and_the_way_we_think_about_the_weather.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Great September Gale<\/a>, as it became known, suggest that meteorology then was in some ways a more holistic, if not more sophisticated, discipline than it is today: \u201cGales and tempests were related, many people thought, to phenomena like lightning, volcanism, and earthquakes \u2026 In the 1810s, the idea of an \u2018electric fluid\u2019 surrounding and suffusing the world\u2014disturbances in which manifested themselves as earthquakes, waterspouts, hurricanes, and thunderstorms\u2014was quite mainstream \u2026 For many New Englanders in 1815, it was intuitively obvious that everything in the sky, and most everything on the ground, was connected somehow to everything else.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Seventy-five years after his apparent suicide, what are we to make of Walter Benjamin\u2014or his strange end? Supposedly he took his own life in 1940, on the Spanish border, where his visa had been refused; he feared that if he returned to France he\u2019d be handed over to the Nazis. But \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2015\/sep\/26\/walter-benjamins-legacy-75-years-on\" target=\"_blank\">there are all sorts of unanswered questions surrounding Benjamin\u2019s death<\/a>. His traveling companions remembered him carrying a heavy briefcase containing a manuscript he described as \u2018more important than I am\u2019. No such manuscript was found after his death \u2026 There has been persistent speculation that he was actually murdered, perhaps by a Soviet agent who had infiltrated his escaping party.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In which William Vollmann reads a novelization of Trotsky\u2019s assassination (<em>The Great Prince Died<\/em>) and begins to mull on grave questions of power: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2015\/sep\/28\/trotsky-paradox-wolfe-great-prince\/\" target=\"_blank\">Do the ends justify the means<\/a>? This is one of the great questions of any time. We should consider it deeply and <em>provisionally<\/em> answer it for ourselves \u2026 \u2018Then it amounts to this,\u2019 says a Mexican official to the dying Rostov\u2019s wife. \u2018Those who use all means will win, those who reject some means will lose. There is no remedy \u2026\u2019 Can it be so? Trotsky believed it. Sometimes, so do I. (That is why I prefer to lose.)\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in recovered Babylonian epics: At last! <a href=\"http:\/\/etc.ancient.eu\/2015\/09\/24\/giglamesh-enkidu-humbaba-cedar-forest-newest-discovered-tablet-v-epic\/\" target=\"_blank\">A new version of the fifth tablet of the <em>Epic of Gilgamesh<\/em><\/a> has been unearthed, perhaps illegally, from an undisclosed location in what was once Mesopotamia. It contains a whopping twenty new lines of cuneiform, rich with such narrative revelations as \u201cGilgamesh and Enkidu saw \u2018monkeys\u2019 as part of the exotic and noisy fauna of the Cedar Forest\u201d and \u201cHumbaba emerges not as a barbarian ogre but as a foreign ruler entertained with exotic music at court in the manner of Babylonian kings.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carmen Balcells, who died earlier this month, was \u201ca literary superagent with a license to kill, like James Bond.\u201d (NB: she never murdered anyone. 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