{"id":93482,"date":"2016-01-14T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T14:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=93482"},"modified":"2016-01-14T10:53:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T15:53:36","slug":"the-plums-for-oscar-wildes-pudding-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/14\/the-plums-for-oscar-wildes-pudding-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plums for Oscar Wilde\u2019s Pudding, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_93484\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/24193707535_5e8aa0f0ea_o.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93484\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93484\" class=\"wp-image-93484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/24193707535_5e8aa0f0ea_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/24193707535_5e8aa0f0ea_o.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/24193707535_5e8aa0f0ea_o-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-93484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil May, <i>Oscar Wilde and Whistler<\/i>, 1894.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Where 7Up is the uncola, poetry is the \u201cun-Trump,\u201d Eileen Myles says: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/17\/magazine\/eileen-myles-wants-men-to-take-a-hike.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy. It\u2019s like the un-Trump: The poet is the charismatic loser<\/a>. You\u2019re the fool in Shakespeare; you\u2019re the loose cannon. As things get worse, poetry gets better, because it becomes more necessary \u2026 I think it would be a great time for men, basically, to go on vacation. There isn\u2019t enough work for everybody. Certainly in the arts, in all genres, I think that men should step away. I think men should stop writing books. I think men should stop making movies or television. Say, for fifty to one hundred years.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Last week, I sang the praises of Elliott Chaze\u2019s <em>Black Wings Has My Angel<\/em>, a 1953 heist novel about a seedy couple on the lam. It should have been turned into an excellent movie by now\u2014but we\u2019re lucky because it hasn\u2019t, and that means we have no choice but to read it as Chaze wrote it. Writes Christian Lorentzen: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2016\/01\/black-wings-has-my-angel-a-perfect-crime-novel.html?mid=twitter_vulture\" target=\"_blank\">On a technical level, it is possible to write a perfect crime novel. You might say <em>Black Wings Has My Angel<\/em> is beyond perfection<\/a> \u2026 [It\u2019s] the sort of love story in which either lover might turn in or murder the other at any moment until its last desperate pages \u2026 They stick with each other when everyone\u2019s against them, knowing that neither of them is really fit for the straight and narrow. When the surprises arrive, Chaze makes no false moves, and none of the plot\u2019s mechanics creak. There\u2019s a shoot-out, cigar-involved police brutality, and a jailbreak.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Oscar Wilde faced accusations of plagiarism for most of his career\u2014he was clever enough to know he\u2019d sound <em>more <\/em>clever if he borrowed some choice phrases here and there. James McNeill Whistler, the American painter, was especially dogged in his efforts to bring Wilde\u2019s appropriated bons mots to light: \u201cMany observers dismissed the idea that Wilde\u2019s youthful identification with his Romantic and Pre-Raphaelite poetic idols was so strong that his devotion to them\u2014and not a desire to steal from them\u2014resulted in his apparent copying of their writings \u2026 Toward the end of 1886, Whistler\u2019s temper flared up once more when he detected Wilde\u2019s flagrant appropriation of some of his phrases. \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/2016\/01\/13\/on-oscar-wilde-and-plagiarism\/\" target=\"_blank\">What has Oscar in common with Art? except that he dines at our tables, and picks from our platters the plums for the pudding he peddles in the provinces.\u2019 \u2018Oscar,\u2019 Whistler\u2019s barbs continued, \u2018has the courage of the opinions \u2026 of others!<\/a>\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s a popular myth about \u201cParis Syndrome,\u201d an affliction of disillusionment that apparently strikes about a dozen Japanese tourists a year when, arriving at last in storied France, they find it to be startlingly imperfect beside their fantasies of it. Harriet Alida Lye called bullshit and visited the Japanese Embassy to set things straight. \u201cThe man in the press office cut short my efforts,\u201d she writes. \u201c\u2009\u2018This so-called Paris Syndrome,\u2019 he said, \u2018is not recognized by any officials in either Japan or France, and there is no specific group within the Embassy that deals with any kind of health problems.\u2019 The embassy had \u2018no information and no statistics\u2019 on Paris Syndrome \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/hazlitt.net\/feature\/myth-myth-city-love\" target=\"_blank\">What is it about Paris that creates the possibility for unrealistic expectations in the first place? \u2026 Why are people like my dentist unable to perceive that life in this city could be anything other than a dream?<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>What do Roger Angell, Diana Athill, and Ann Burack-Weiss have in common? They\u2019re all old; they all have new books about being old; their new old books are all good. Athill, who led an \u201cunconventional love life,\u201d recalls in her book \u201chow a memoir she wrote on that subject distressed her genteel mother. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/books\/2016\/01\/diana_athill_s_alive_alive_oh_and_roger_angell_s_this_old_man_reviewed.single.html\" target=\"_blank\">Their solution to this disagreement was to simply not talk about it, which Athill at first found ridiculous, then comic, and then, finally \u2018a very successful way of dealing with a difficult problem<\/a>. You have a daughter whom you love, she does something you wish very much she hadn\u2019t done, but you want to go on loving her in spite of it.\u2019 The essay ends with Athill observing that this strategy really works. \u2018My mother and I grew closer and closer. There are no memories that I value more than that of the almost flame of love which lit her eyes when she opened them and saw me bending over her deathbed.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where 7Up is the uncola, poetry is the \u201cun-Trump,\u201d Eileen Myles says: \u201cPoetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy. It\u2019s like the un-Trump: The poet is the charismatic loser. You\u2019re the fool in Shakespeare; you\u2019re the loose cannon. 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