{"id":90717,"date":"2015-10-09T09:36:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T13:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=90717"},"modified":"2015-10-09T10:12:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T14:12:27","slug":"hey-orphan-youre-just-a-plot-device-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/09\/hey-orphan-youre-just-a-plot-device-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Orphan, You\u2019re Just a Plot Device, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_90718\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/cc_no_23_oliver_twist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90718\" class=\"wp-image-90718 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/cc_no_23_oliver_twist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/cc_no_23_oliver_twist.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/cc_no_23_oliver_twist-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-90718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oliver Twist, as pictured on the cover of <i>Classic Comics<\/i> no. 23.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Lewis\u2019s profile of (and fan note to) Tom Wolfe also reveals the startling comprehensiveness of the latter\u2019s archives: \u201cWolfe saved what he touched\u2014report cards, tailors\u2019 bills, to-do lists, reader letters, lecture notes, book blurbs, requests for book blurbs, drawings, ideas for drawings never executed (\u2018Nude Skydiver Devoured in Midair by Ravenous Owls\u2019), and dozens of sexually explicit and totally insane letters from a female stalker, including one consisting chiefly of seventeen pages of red lip prints. He just tossed all this stuff in steamer trunks and hauled the trunks up to the attic, where some of them had sat undisturbed for fifty years. He kept postcards from friends with hardly anything written on them; he kept all the Christmas cards; he kept morning-after notes from New York society ladies \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2015\/10\/how-tom-wolfe-became-tom-wolfe#17\" target=\"_blank\">The documents tell the story of the leading journalistic observer and describer of American life<\/a>, in a time of radical cultural transformation, and of the sensational explosion in American literary journalism that occurred in the late 1960s and 1970s\u2014on which the ashes and the dust are just now settling.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The orphan in literature is many things\u2014spunky, resourceful, downtrodden, tragic, trammeled, unfettered\u2014but foremost it\u2019s a shortcut to narrative tension: \u201cOrphanhood is the beginning of (mis)adventures and only very rarely the end. Once such intolerable extremity has been inflicted (by parents, by cruel society, by authors), it can\u2019t be left be: the sufferers must seek relief and resolution \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/the-uses-of-orphans\/\" target=\"_blank\">The literary orphan belongs to no world except that of narrative opportunity<\/a> \u2026 Many people expect real orphans to behave like literary orphans: like portable anti-alienation devices for the people who, so to speak, take us in.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>If you sat for a portrait from Goya, you weren\u2019t there for vanity\u2019s sake; you had to be prepared to see the worst in yourself, because that\u2019s what he was going to put on the canvas. \u201cEven while he was following the protocols of aristocratic portraiture, Goya just couldn\u2019t stop himself noticing\u2014and depicting\u2014all sorts of extraneous and revealing sights \u2026 There are such subversive undertones and notes of sardonic comedy to many of his pictures \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/new.spectator.co.uk\/2015\/10\/why-did-goyas-sitters-put-up-with-his-brutal-honesty\/\" target=\"_blank\">Goya\u2019s (Lucian) Freud-like honesty about his sitters seems so clear in retrospect that it has always been a mystery why some of them put up with it<\/a>. He clearly despised his last royal master Ferdinand VII, who looks sly, nasty, fat-faced and idiotic in the state portrait of 1814\u201315.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Driving refugees on Lesbos: \u201cAt one of the main landing beaches, children, babies, elderly, sick and disabled people were waiting for Norwegian volunteers to pick them up and drive them three wiles west to another makeshift waiting point at Efthalou. It used to be illegal to transport refugees on the island and the police arrested a few people, but the law has since been relaxed. A Danish woman asked me to drive a family of four. They were from the Palestinian Yarmouk refugee camp just outside Damascus, which is now mostly controlled by Islamic State. Rami, the father, spoke excellent English \u2026 \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/09\/oscar-webb\/on-lesbos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Somebody, somebody will help us<\/a>,\u2019 he said. His wife was pregnant and had had bleeding problems in the boat. \u2018Oh my god, very beautiful,\u2019 Rami said as we drove round a bend on the dirt track overlooking the sea.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>You look like someone who\u2019s seeking ethical clarity. Well, don\u2019t look for it here. We don\u2019t have any. We\u2019re fresh out. \u201cThe old question\u2014<em>How to live an alright life in a bad world? \u2026 <\/em>Nonprofit job, artish hobbies, moderate drinking, hope the friends stay funny and nearby. While young: shared apartments, cheap whiskey, <em>n+1<\/em>; older: art in the house, Spanish wine, the <em>New Yorker<\/em>. And when God or the workers\u2019 council weighs our fates, hope the scales might be tipped by the weight of a book \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/thepointmag.com\/2015\/examined-life\/effected\" target=\"_blank\">An idea is a kind of cartoon. Inhabiting one, we get that thrill of clarity: everything simple and certain, with sharp black borders<\/a>. 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We get out, and the fuller world rushes back to meet us, in all its grubby confusion.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Lewis\u2019s profile of (and fan note to) Tom Wolfe also reveals the startling comprehensiveness of the latter\u2019s archives: \u201cWolfe saved what he touched\u2014report cards, tailors\u2019 bills, to-do lists, reader letters, lecture notes, book blurbs, requests for book blurbs, drawings, ideas for drawings never executed (\u2018Nude Skydiver Devoured in Midair by Ravenous Owls\u2019), and dozens 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