{"id":93248,"date":"2016-01-07T09:10:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=93248"},"modified":"2016-01-07T10:58:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:58:19","slug":"empty-your-own-chamber-pot-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/07\/empty-your-own-chamber-pot-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Your Own Chamber Pot, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_93250\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tolstoy_family_circle_at_yasnaya_polyana.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93250\" class=\"wp-image-93250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tolstoy_family_circle_at_yasnaya_polyana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tolstoy_family_circle_at_yasnaya_polyana.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tolstoy_family_circle_at_yasnaya_polyana-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tolstoy_family_circle_at_yasnaya_polyana-768x485.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-93250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tolstoy\u2019s family circle at Yasnaya Polyana, ca. 1905.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Swedish Academy keeps its lists of potential Nobel winners confidential for fifty years\u2014meaning that, at last, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/jan\/06\/borges-auden-nabokov-neruda-nobel-prize-literature-1965?CMP=share_btn_tw\" target=\"_blank\">we can see who coulda been a contender for the 1965 prize in literature<\/a>. That year it went to the Soviet writer Mikhail Sholokhov, of <em>And Quiet Flows the Don<\/em>.\u00a0Among the writers in contention, though, were Nabokov and Borges, neither of whom would ever make the cut. According to his maid, Borges was \u201ctortured\u201d by the annual spectacle surrounding the prize: \u201cOn the day of the announcement journalists would queue outside his door. This would happen year after year. The news each time that he had not won would make him very sad.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In 1894, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/life-at-one-of-englands-last-tolstoyan-communes\" target=\"_blank\">communes dedicated to the teachings of Tolstoy began to spring up in England; two of them still exist today<\/a>, vowing to keep the flames of pacifism, anarchism, and clean Christian living. Kelsey Osgood paid one a visit: \u201cAnother community resident, Jo, wearing knee-high Wellingtons and a flashlight on her head, showed me the outhouses and taught me how to sprinkle wood shavings into the bucket to compost the bodily waste. (The shavings were from pine trees that they grow on their land and sell at Christmas.) I thought of how Tolstoy asked a young Desmond MacCarthy, the Eton and Cambridge-educated literary critic and journalist, to empty his own chamber pot while visiting Tolstoy\u2019s grand house at Yasnaya Polyana, because the Count thought it degrading to ask the servants to do it.<\/li>\n<li>A friendly reminder: mice are people, too, often somewhat literally. Maud Newton has humanized mice on the mind: \u201cAccording to <em>New Scientist<\/em>, the researchers put human brain cells into mice by injecting \u2018immature glial cells\u2019 from human fetuses into baby mice, where they \u2018developed into astrocytes, a star-shaped type of glial cell,\u2019 and became invasive \u2026 It\u2019s impossible to know how many kinds of humanized rodents exist, in part because, if you\u2019re a researcher, you can have the mice tailor-humanized just for you. One company claims to provide at least seventy-five hundred strains \u2026 So far, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2016\/01\/i-rodent\" target=\"_blank\">whatever discussion exists in the scientific community about how humanized mice themselves might be affected by, for example, having human brain cells, seems to focus on the ways we\u2019ve succeeded in making the mice more like us<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/06\/books\/new-york-public-library-invites-a-deep-digital-dive.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Public Library\u2019s special collections department has released some 180,000 images into the public domain<\/a>. You want postcards? They got postcards. You want maps? They got maps. You want rare images of \u201cTown Ball\u201d and \u201cOld Cat,\u201d two stick-and-ball games that were precursors to baseball? You got rare images of \u201cTown Ball\u201d and \u201cOld Cat,\u201d two stick-and-ball games that were precursors to baseball. \u201cIt\u2019s not just a data dump,\u201d said Dan Cohen, the executive director of the Digital Public Library of America. \u201cIt\u2019s a next step that I would like to see more institutions take.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019ve ever arrived in New York through the Lincoln Tunnel, you\u2019ve probably espied the big red sign for the New Yorker, a hotel whose iconic name has nothing to do with the magazine. This was \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/exploring-the-forgotten-art-deco-artifacts-of-the-new-yorker-hotel\" target=\"_blank\">the hotel of the traveling salesmen, pilots and aircrew on short layovers, tourists and GIs being shipped to the European Front \u2026 If the Waldorf-Astoria were a well-dressed woman in an elegantly feathered hat, the New Yorker would be a salesman in a crumpled suit, drinking a whiskey and soda<\/a>.\u201d But what goes on there? What <em>went <\/em>on there? Early photos tell of a glut of Art Deco glamour\u2014and a secret tunnel leading to Penn Station.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish Academy keeps its lists of potential Nobel winners confidential for fifty years\u2014meaning that, at last, we can see who coulda been a contender for the 1965 prize in literature. That year it went to the Soviet writer Mikhail Sholokhov, of And Quiet Flows the Don.\u00a0Among the writers in contention, though, were Nabokov and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[4923,14489,20700,2476,4861,14415,2237,4279,6053,20701],"class_list":["post-93248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-art-deco","tag-communes","tag-humanized-mice","tag-jorge-luis-borges","tag-leo-tolstoy","tag-mice","tag-new-york-public-library","tag-nobel-prize","tag-public-domain","tag-the-new-yorker-hotel"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Living on a Tolstoyan Commune<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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