{"id":91056,"date":"2015-10-20T09:10:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T13:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=91056"},"modified":"2015-10-20T11:09:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T15:09:54","slug":"marcels-spurious-spongecake-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/20\/marcels-spurious-spongecake-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcel\u2019s Spurious Sponge Cake, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_91057\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/marcel_proust_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91057\" class=\"wp-image-91057\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/marcel_proust_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/marcel_proust_2.jpg 1968w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/marcel_proust_2-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/marcel_proust_2-1024x791.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-91057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcel Proust, date unknown.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Proust\u2019s madeleine is one of modernism\u2019s essential images\u2014a cookie whose unique taste, whose absolute singularity, could conjure for the author a whole lost world. So it\u2019s downright disturbing, then, to learn that the cookie was damn near something else: \u201cA first draft of Proust\u2019s monumental novel dating from 1907 had the author reminiscing not about madeleines as the sensory trigger for a childhood memory about his aunt, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/oct\/19\/proust-madeleine-cakes-started-as-toast-in-search-of-lost-time-manuscripts-reveal\" target=\"_blank\">but instead about toasted bread mixed with honey \u2026 A second draft, the manuscripts showed, had the evocative mouthful as a biscotto, a hard biscuit<\/a>.\u201d Nostalgia is hereby ruined for everyone. Condolences.<\/li>\n<li>Rivka Galchen has been spending a lot of time singing lullabies, which has given her ample room to consider their origins, their mysteries, and the plangent sadness they sound: \u201cWhat, really, is a lullaby? We can define it functionally\u2014a song used to lull a child to sleep \u2026 Another function is to let the singer speak. Maybe this is one reason the lyrics of lullabies are often so unsettled and dark. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/18\/magazine\/the-melancholy-mystery-of-lullabies.html\" target=\"_blank\">One way a mother might bond with a newborn is by sharing her joy; another way is by sharing her grief or frustration<\/a> \u2026 When even relatively happy, well-supported people become the primary caretaker of a very small person, they tend to find themselves eddied out from the world of adults. They are never alone\u2014there is always that tiny person\u2014and yet they are often lonely. Old songs let us feel the fellowship of these other people, across space and time, also holding babies in dark rooms.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Looking for a way forward, young writer? Embrace Ottessa Moshfegh\u2019s scatological philosophy, and find truth in the <em>ouroboros<\/em> of your gastrointestinal tract: \u201cMy aim was to shit out new shit. And so <a href=\"https:\/\/mastersreview.com\/how-to-shit-by-ottessa-moshfegh\/\" target=\"_blank\">in writing, I think a lot about how to shit. What kind of stink do I want to make in the world?<\/a> My new shit becomes the shit I eat. I learn by digesting my own delusions. It\u2019s often very disgusting. The process requires as much self-awareness and honesty as I\u2019m capable of having. It requires the courage to be hostile and contradictory. My creativity seems to gain traction out of this relationship with reality: I hate you, I hate myself, I love myself, you love me, I love you, I hate you, ad infinitum. I am interested in my own hypocrisy. It provides the turbulence for me to change.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>John Clare, cast off in the nineteenth century as a minor poet, is today one of our most essential, especially in his treatment of nature: \u201cHe saw tragic ironies all over the place, but he never sought verbal ironies himself: he is about as sincere (if not naive) as poets get. <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/poetry\/stephen-burt-john-clare#.ViAlF8f2qoE.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Clare seems to have benefited from few of the changes wreaked on the planet since the invention of the steam engine and cannot be blamed for whatever brought them about: he may be the last significant white Anglophone poet for whom that was true.<\/a>\u201d Accordingly, poets like Lisa Fishman, Matthew Dickman, David Morley, David Baker, and Donald Revell have opened up a kind of dialogue with him in work that directly addresses his own: \u201cClare\u2019s apparently unorganized\u2014but minutely observed\u2014poetry looks like a model for poets who want to stay true to a material world while rejecting the hypotactic, well-made structures that earlier generations preferred.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019ve probably spent hours in your toolshed puzzling over the etymology of <em>monkey wrench<\/em>\u2014who hasn\u2019t? Relief is at hand: <a href=\"http:\/\/esnpc.blogspot.com\/2015\/10\/charles-monk-monkey-wrenches-and-monkey.html\" target=\"_blank\">you may now learn more than you ever thought you wanted to know about the history and origin of monkey wrenches, and their mystery runs deep<\/a>. Charles Moncky, the alleged inventor of said wrench, is often believed to have inspired its name, but \u201che would have been only twelve years old in 1840 when the earliest known accounts of <em>monkey wrenches<\/em> appeared in print.\u201d The answer may lie in a popular toy, the monkey stick\u2014you decide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proust\u2019s madeleine is one of modernism\u2019s essential images\u2014a cookie whose unique taste, whose absolute singularity, could conjure for the author a whole lost world. 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