{"id":96206,"date":"2016-03-29T09:20:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T13:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=96206"},"modified":"2016-03-29T10:25:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T14:25:47","slug":"pacing-the-roman-countryside-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/29\/pacing-the-roman-countryside-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacing the Roman Countryside, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_96208\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/towne-baths-caracalla.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-96208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96208\" class=\"wp-image-96208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/towne-baths-caracalla.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/towne-baths-caracalla.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/towne-baths-caracalla-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/towne-baths-caracalla-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/towne-baths-caracalla-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-96208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francis Towne, <i>The Baths of Caracalla<\/i>, 1781. Image via the British Museum\/<em>The\u00a0New York Review of Books<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>New York\u2019s alright if you like saxophones, but it\u2019s no place for existentialists: \u201cWhen a boat carrying Albert Camus sailed into New York Harbor in March 1946, he was hailed as a moral emissary from war-ravaged Europe and the glamorous embodiment of a newfangled philosophy known as Existentialism \u2026 But a year later, Camus recalled his three months amid the city\u2019s \u2018swarming lights\u2019 and frantic streets with a mixture of awe and bafflement. \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/25\/books\/albert-camus-stranger-in-a-strange-land-new-york.html\" target=\"_blank\">I have my ideas about other cities but about New York only these powerful and fleeting emotions<\/a>,\u2019 he wrote in 1947. \u2018I still know nothing about New York, whether one moves among madmen here or among the most reasonable people in the world.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>If you think there\u2019s no possible way for a painter to take a unique approach to the Roman ruins\u2014because who hasn\u2019t painted them?\u2014look at the work of Francis Towne, whose color washes the city in eerie light: \u201cTowne was forty-one, no stripling, when he arrived in Italy in October 1780. Born a Londoner, he had begun his career as a coach-painter, moving in his twenties to Exeter. There, he became a respected drawing master and painter of West Country landscapes, of scenes of the lakes and of North Wales. His work was admired, yet the London art establishment dismissed him as a provincial drawing teacher\u2014while he, on the other hand, was equally disdainful in return, adopting the habit of his Exeter patrons of praising rural retirement and virtue in contrast to the vanities of city life \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2016\/03\/26\/rome-behind-ruins-francis-towne\/\" target=\"_blank\">Towne\u2019s paintings suggest a wariness about approaching the great city. He began with views from without, pacing the countryside<\/a> \u2026 Towne preferred the back of things, the uncommon view, high walls, old Roman gates, suggesting a life beyond. He ignored modern Rome; he gives no hint of grand Papal processions, of high-life, of the color and glamor that wowed the young men on their Grand Tours.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A casual reminder that spending time with Salvador Dal\u00ed was statistically all but guaranteed to yield a great story: \u201cDal\u00ed broke his silence. \u2018My fisherman-Christ,\u2019 he announced with a toss of the head. Before I had time to register surprise he added in a loud voice, \u2018Now it is time to swim.\u2019 Without a glance in my direction he made his way very precisely across the rocks and into the water. I decided that since I was the required audience <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/books\/what-to-read\/i-had-no-choice-but-to-strip-to-my-pants-and-follow-dal--into-th\/\" target=\"_blank\">the only course of action was to strip down to my underpants and follow him into the sea<\/a>. Dal\u00ed began to utter, as though he was in a trance. As he did so he gave me my own surrealist moment, as his head appeared to be floating disembodied on the water, his eyes huge and staring past me towards the open sea, with the moustachios raised a little above the surface like twin periscopes \u2026 He launched into a declaration: \u2018Every morning upon waking I experience the supreme pleasure of being Salvador Dal\u00ed, and I ask myself what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dal\u00ed?\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>Then again, meeting Hilary Clinton can make for a great story, too, if you\u2019re Terry Castle: \u201cI haven\u2019t rehearsed any jokey badinage to cast in HRC\u2019s direction on being introduced; nor even tried out possible facial expressions in the mirror. The moment has arrived and I simply don\u2019t know what to do. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v38\/n07\/terry-castle\/diary\" target=\"_blank\">Thus it unfolds that even as Her (Mostly) Incorruptible Majesty reaches appreciatively for my hand, I am mortified to hear myself squeak out\u2014like a dying baby bat mewling helplessly for its mother: \u2018SORRYMYHANDISSOCOLD.\u2019<\/a> Just that\u2014all in a rush, all in a preternaturally silly little voice \u2026 Hillary Clinton\u2014two-term First Lady, former New York Senator, US Secretary of State, legendary Iron Woman and all-around Smiling yet Fearless Maker of Executive Decisions on which our Great Country\u2019s Future Depends\u2014takes my frozen mitt in her own, enfolds it Don Giovanni\u2013style, and now regards me with a rakish and appraising eye: \u2018<em>Well, Terry<\/em> [she says]: <em>We\u2019ll Just Have to Do Something (heh heh) to Warm It Up. Won\u2019t We? (Heh heh heh)\u2019 <\/em><em>Love-impaled Sappho, help me in my discombobulation! Did you hear that? HILLARY CLINTON IS FLIRTING WITH ME! She\u2019s got my hand and she is warming it up! Bejeezus! (It\u2019s getting pos<\/em><em>itively toasty!) Not only that\u2014<\/em><em>my god! She\u2019s giving me the Look! (What look?) The Look You Can\u2019t Mistake! The Nanosecond Too Long Look! The Look you get when someone shows you her trowel for the first time! The Look you get when contemplating the Mysteries of Rosicrucianism!<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Last week I reported in this space, perhaps with a bit of alarmism, that artificial intelligences are now writing award-winning novels and that the entire human storytelling tradition is doomed. I may have been wrong. \u201cAs Japanese publication <em>Asahi Shimbum <\/em>explains, the research team first wrote a novel of their own and then broke it down into its component parts. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2016\/03\/25\/a_i_written_novel_competes_for_japanese_literary_award_but_humans_are_doing.html\" target=\"_blank\">Only then did the A.I. involve itself, arranging the parts it had been given to create \u2018another story similar to the sample novel,\u2019 building it from words, phrases, characters, and plot outlines that had been fed to it<\/a>. The <em>Los Angeles Times <\/em>claims that this means that the computers \u2018did the hard work,\u2019 which is true only if you consider plagiarism \u2018hard\u2019 \u2026 Literary algorithms almost always seem to work best when they\u2019re producing the kind of texts such as contemporary poems in which we expect to find confusing elements.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York\u2019s alright if you like saxophones, but it\u2019s no place for existentialists: \u201cWhen a boat carrying Albert Camus sailed into New York Harbor in March 1946, he was hailed as a moral emissary from war-ravaged Europe and the glamorous embodiment of a newfangled philosophy known as Existentialism \u2026 But a year later, Camus recalled 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