{"id":91381,"date":"2015-10-29T09:17:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T13:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=91381"},"modified":"2015-10-29T12:30:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T16:30:33","slug":"give-those-old-ladies-a-break-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/29\/give-those-old-ladies-a-break-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Those Old Ladies a Break, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_91383\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/joachim_martin_falbe_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91383\" class=\"wp-image-91383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/joachim_martin_falbe_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/joachim_martin_falbe_2.jpg 811w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/joachim_martin_falbe_2-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-91383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joachim Martin Falbe, <i>Portrait of an Old Lady<\/i>, ca. 1755.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Evil, in fairy tales, often comes in the form of an old woman: the fearsome, embittered crone is a staple of the genre. What will it take for our legends to start treating old biddies with respect\u2014and why did they get a bad rap to begin with? The answer could be psychological (\u201cChildren do have a way of splitting the mother figure into &#8230; the evil mother\u2014who\u2019s always making rules and regulations, policing your behavior, getting angry at you<em>\u2014<\/em>and then the benevolent nurturer\u201d) or political (\u201cShe\u2019s usually a solitary woman. She\u2019s already marginal. She\u2019s angry at something\u2014at life, or whatever\u2014and she will \u2018eat\u2019\u2014that\u2019s the expression\u2014people\u2019s souls, in the sense that she\u2019s going to possess people and then they die a terrible death\u201d). Or maybe we\u2019ve just been reading the stories wrong and failing to see that \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/10\/28\/450657717\/why-are-old-women-often-the-face-of-evil-in-fairy-tales-and-folklore\" target=\"_blank\">old women in fairy tales and folklore practically keep civilization together<\/a>. They judge, reward, harm and heal; and they\u2019re often the most intriguing characters in the story.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Oh, goody. We might just have, more than fifty years after her death, a new Sylvia Plath sex scandal on our hands:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2015\/10\/we-have-a-new-sylvia-plath-sex-scandal.html\" target=\"_blank\">What was she doing the night before she gassed herself<\/a>? Her biographer Jonathan Bate might know. \u201cAndrew Sinclair, a friend of Plath and [Ted] Hughes, pointed\u00a0[Bate]\u00a0to a poem of Hughes\u2019s that made reference to a final lover of Plath\u2019s, and that a book editor in New York, Frances Lindley, met someone at a book party who told her he\u2019d seen Plath\u2019s last letter, which made reference to a call to said lover. Additionally, Plath\u2019s downstairs neighbor attested that she asked for a postage stamp that last night. Next to the phone box on St. George\u2019s Terrace, there\u2019s also a mailbox. Bate says he\u2019s read reports of a collector in possession of Plath\u2019s last letter, but he doesn\u2019t name the collector. He doesn\u2019t name the possible final lover either.\u201d It might be \u201cthe critic Al Alvarez, who is still living but has always denied having an affair with Plath (\u2018Sylvia wasn\u2019t my style\u2014she wasn\u2019t my physical type,\u2019 he told Janet Malcolm) and has expressed guilt about the whole thing.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>David Lynch disdains words, and that\u2019s okay as long as you\u2019re not having a conversation with him. Better, maybe, just to listen: \u201cIn Lynch\u2019s own speech and in the speech patterns of his films, the impression is of language used less for meaning than for sound. To savor the thingness of words is to move away from their imprisoning nature. Lynch has said, more than once, that he had to \u2018learn to talk,\u2019 and his very particular, somewhat limited vocabulary seems in many ways an outgrowth of his aesthetic \u2026 Lynch\u2019s aphasia is born of a protectiveness that verges on superstition. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/david-lynchs-elusive-language\" target=\"_blank\">Words for him are not just reductive; they are anathema to his view of art as fundamentally enigmatic<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in the case for misandry: men are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/lifestyle\/nutscapes-instagram\/\" target=\"_blank\">taking photos of beautiful landscapes and allowing their exposed scrotums to creep into the frame<\/a>. It\u2019s called nutscaping. And no matter how its creator attempts to defend it\u2014it takes \u201ccourage, vulnerability and skill to properly execute,\u201d he says, and it\u2019s intended to gratify \u201ca primal urge to connect on a deeper level with Mother Nature\u201d\u2014it\u2019s further proof that men should probably be wiped off the face of the Earth.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s nothing like a magic trick to restore one\u2019s faith in good old battle-tested irrationality: \u201cBelieving in magic is generally considered a callow faith, clung to by foolish young\u2019uns who have a long distance relationship with reality \u2026 Carl Jung opted not to explain magic away. Instead, he wrote in 1938, there\u2019s psychological worth in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2015\/10\/28\/the-case-for-magic\/\" target=\"_blank\">how magic and religion can allow us to function effectively in society<\/a>: \u2018What is usually and generally called \u201creligion\u201d is \u2026 a substitute.\u00a0\u2026 The substitution has the obvious purpose of replacing immediate experience by a choice of suitable symbols invested in a solidly organized dogma and ritual.\u201d Magic, in short, allows us to put reality through a strainer \u2026 It is the experience itself we\u2019re imbibing, and magic can help with the swallow \u2026 Indeed, as Harry Houdini said, \u2018Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can\u2019t understand it.\u2019 \u201d (Cue Pilot\u2019s 1975 hit, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MzlK0OGpIRs\" target=\"_blank\">Magic<\/a>\u201d\u2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evil, in fairy tales, often comes in the form of an old woman: the fearsome, embittered crone is a staple of the genre. What will it take for our legends to start treating old biddies with respect\u2014and why did they get a bad rap to begin with? 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