{"id":90899,"date":"2015-10-15T09:07:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T13:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=90899"},"modified":"2015-10-15T10:36:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T14:36:55","slug":"now-lay-me-down-in-a-grotto-of-moss-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/15\/now-lay-me-down-in-a-grotto-of-moss-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Lay Me Down in a Grotto of Moss, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_90900\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/moss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90900\" class=\"wp-image-90900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/moss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/moss.jpg 732w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/moss-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-90900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A grove of mosses from Ernst Haeckel\u2019s <i>Kunstformen der Natur<\/i>, 1904. Image via Public Domain Review<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in persistence, doubt, the slow burn, and eventual triumph: Marlon James, who won the Booker earlier this week for his novel <em>A Brief History of Seven Killings<\/em>, saw seventy-eight different houses reject his first novel. (Can you beat that record? Let\u2019s talk.) \u201c \u2018I had to sit down and add it up one day and I had no idea it was that much \u2026 I did give it up. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/oct\/14\/man-booker-prize-marlon-james-debut-novel-rejected-nearly-80-times\" target=\"_blank\">I actually destroyed the manuscript, I even went on my friends\u2019 computers and erased it<\/a>.\u2019 He said he retrieved the text by searching in the e-mail outbox of an old iMac computer.\u201d James is the first Jamaican writer to win the Booker.<\/li>\n<li>Behold, the awesome generative power of the image search, which has given rise to millions of mood boards and a lust for an intimate connection to pictures: \u201cAs the longing for emotional connection spreads from how we want our clothes or living room to feel to how we want our minivan or constitutional democracy to feel, the mood business continues to expand \u2026 fueled, in large part, by the sheer overabundance of available images. It\u2019s hard to remember that a couple of decades ago, finding pictures of things involved countless, tedious hours of random page flipping. Now a few seconds of furious keystroking produces endless examples \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/14\/t-magazine\/human-emotion-the-one-thing-the-internet-cant-buy.html\" target=\"_blank\">As vast files of metadata and personal search histories are ferreted away in some server farm in god-knows-where, we crave the kind of anodyne, gauzy experiences that at least promise something warmer and more human<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>But even as the Internet helps us find too many things, it loses them. A thirty-four-part series of investigative journalism from 2007\u2014nominated for the Pulitzer, even\u2014disappeared from <em>The Rocky Mountain News<\/em>\u2019s Web site, where it had been exclusively published. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/10\/raiders-of-the-lost-web\/409210\/?utm_source=SFTwitter\" target=\"_blank\">If a sprawling Pulitzer Prize\u2013nominated feature in one of the nation\u2019s oldest newspapers can disappear from the web, anything can<\/a> \u2026 today\u2019s web is more at-risk than the iterations that preceded it. The serving environments are now more complex, and the volume of data involved is astonishing \u2026 Saving something on the web, just as Kevin Vaughan learned from what happened to his work, means not just preserving websites but maintaining the environments in which they first appeared\u2014the same environments that often fail, even when they\u2019re being actively maintained.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Richard Spruce, a nineteenth-century biologist, was obsessed not with spruces or even conifers at large, but with mosses, liverworts, bryophytes: the true underdogs of the plant world. Most scientists of his kind found them boring, but mosses had an active life in other quarters of the Victorian imagination: \u201cBryophytes had a way of working themselves into art and literature as signifiers of privacy and secrecy \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/2015\/10\/14\/richard-spruce-and-the-trials-of-victorian-bryology\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moss in particular served to create some botanical, aesthetic sense of a setting that allowed for illicit sexual encounters and for primal yearnings<\/a> \u2026 Moss provided a soft bed for sexual romps that had to take place outside of stuffy Victorian homes. Serving, perhaps predictably, as a slang term for pubic hair, moss was understood to be consistently moist and jewel-like, glittering like emerald colonies under light \u2026 Hidden moss grottoes conjured up an image of something semi-religious, some secret refuge from the trials of urban\u2014and overwhelming imperial tropical\u2014life.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Hilton Als on Truman Capote\u2019s early stories, and their approach to queerness, blackness, and the social politics of their day: \u201cAs an artist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-shadows-in-truman-capotes-early-stories\" target=\"_blank\">Truman Capote treated truth as a metaphor he could hide behind<\/a>, the better to expose himself in a world not exactly congenial to a Southern-born queen with a high voice who once said to a disapproving truck driver: \u2018What are you looking at? I wouldn\u2019t kiss you for a dollar\u2019 \u2026 It\u2019s interesting to think about him maybe taking in news reports from the time, like that story about those four black girls in Alabama, one of his home states, blown to bits in a church by racism and maleficence, and maybe wondering how, as the author of 1958\u2019s <em>Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s<\/em>, he could have written of Holly Golightly, the book\u2019s star, asking for a cigarette and then saying: \u2018I don\u2019t mean you, O.J. You\u2019re such a slob. You always nigger-lip.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in persistence, doubt, the slow burn, and eventual triumph: Marlon James, who won the Booker earlier this week for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings, saw seventy-eight different houses reject his first novel. (Can you beat that record? 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