{"id":96573,"date":"2016-04-06T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=96573"},"modified":"2016-04-06T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T19:50:07","slug":"cobweb-peaseblossom-mustardseed-moth-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/06\/cobweb-peaseblossom-mustardseed-moth-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Cobweb, Peaseblossom, Mustardseed, Moth, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_96574\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mackbeth.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-96574\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96574\" class=\"wp-image-96574 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mackbeth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mackbeth.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mackbeth-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-96574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1773 engraving by W. Byrne, after Edward Edwards, of <i>Macbeth<\/i>\u2019s three witches and their concoction<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Last night, we hosted our Spring Revel, and our guests came away with a special, unexpected treat: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/05\/t-magazine\/entertainment\/lydia-davis-aesop-paris-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">a Lydia Davis story on a bottle of mouthwash<\/a>. \u201cIt hasn\u2019t exactly been my dream to see my work printed on a bottle of mouthwash,\u201d she told <em>T Magazine. <\/em>\u201cI wasn\u2019t even aware there was such a plan in the works \u2026 I was very surprised and amused \u2026 I actually had to go back and forth a few times with everyone to get the spacing of the story right\u2014it makes a difference with those very short stories. They have to be read slowly, with pauses in between the lines, otherwise they go by too quickly. So I gave some revisions to the people at <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, and they went back to Aesop, and in the end we got it just right\u2014it was tricky working in such a small space \u2026 So, if someone had asked me what I was doing that day, I would have had to say I was working collaboratively to revise a mouthwash label.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in books of photos of other people\u2019s mirrors: try <em>Mirrors<\/em>, which is just that. It comprises pictures of mirrors advertised on Craiglist\u2014a difficult prospect for the sellers, who always ends up showing more than intended. The photographs, as Rebecca Bengal writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogue.com\/13423434\/craigslist-mirrors-book-found-photographs-eric-oglander-interview-instagram\/\" target=\"_blank\">innocently intrude into strangers\u2019 bedrooms and trespass into their backyards. Unwittingly, the would-be sellers reveal themselves in bizarre and beautiful ways\u2014a phantom hand, a pair of feet, a swath of wallpaper, a drawn curtain, a gaudy, overdressed living room,\u00a0another one totally lacking in decoration or feeling<\/a>. The sheer presence of the reflection interrupts reality, creating new graphic worlds, transforming\u00a0even the most plain surface into an optical illusion. They invite a casual voyeurism; that lack of self-awareness is at the heart of their allure \u2026 A vase of flowers regards its reflection; a computer screen stares down its echo; a dog pauses before a reverse of itself. In these images, the mirror becomes a character, too, a\u00a0palpable observer in the room, quietly enhancing and regarding everything in sight.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Look, normally I don\u2019t go in for this type of thing, but come on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/picture\/2016\/apr\/05\/john-milton-made-of-stilton-author-portraits-in-food\" target=\"_blank\">this is John Milton made of Stilton<\/a>. Show a little respect, people. \u201cI fell in love with John Stilton,\u201d his maker, Christian Kjelstrup, says. \u201cIn Norway, Milton and\u00a0Stilton are treated the same: both are enjoyed only by connoisseurs. The difference between John Milton and John Stilton is the latter is fat, greasy and sticky. I had a hard time making him. The fridge in my office now serves as his temporary mausoleum; I suspect his odor will survive him, perhaps even the fridge.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Shakespeare\u2019s plays are full of lots things: murder, royalty, cheap penis jokes \u2026 and drugs, of course. It\u2019s these that captured the interest of Meghan Petersen, who\u2019s curated an exhibition called \u201cShakespeare\u2019s Potions\u201d at the Currier Museum of Art. It\u2019s not about drugs, per se, but poisons and elixirs: \u201cTitania, the fairy queen of\u00a0<em>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/em>, has four followers named for household remedy ingredients:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/285463\/the-poisons-potions-and-charms-of-shakespeares-plays\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cobweb, Peaseblossom, Mustardseed, and Moth<\/a>. Oberon also sees Titania sleeping on a \u2018bank where the wild thyme blows, \/\u00a0Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, \/\u00a0Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, \/\u00a0With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine.\u2019 The aromatic language precedes Oberon placing\u00a0a love potion in her eyes. Petersen noted that while herbals relayed cures, they additionally\u00a0included herbs \u2018for provoking lust,\u2019 such as\u00a0sea holly, mustard, and peas. \u2018Shakespeare\u2019s Potions\u2019<em>\u00a0<\/em>also explores perhaps the most famous of the Bard\u2019s brews: the witches\u2019 cauldron of<em>\u00a0Macbeth \u2026<\/em> While some of the\u00a0components are outlandish, hemlock was a poison well-known in herbals, the \u201cdigged i\u2019th\u2019 dark\u201d emphasizing, as Petersen stated, \u201cthe belief that plants harvested in the dark \u2014 without the light of the moon\u2014took on evil and villainous powers.\u201d The toxic\u00a0plant also appears in\u00a0<em>Hamlet<\/em>\u00a0with this emphasis:\u00a0\u2018Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Note to historical novelists: the Stalinist era is severely underrepresented in fiction, even though it was a demented hellscape whose horrors practically beg to be dramatized. Saul Austerlitz makes the case: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/ideas\/2016\/04\/02\/the-curious-dearth-stalinist-fiction\/w33Q6wrIynwY5ZMi7STJtO\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Life under Joseph Stalin was often brutal, dramatic, and short, so it\u2019s curious that the period is still given such short shrift by fiction writers<\/a>. Hitler\u2019s Germany, by contrast, is very well-trod ground, and even the post-Stalinist era is a more regular fictional backdrop. Yet neither of these periods can match the mixture of paranoia, longevity, and callousness that marked the dictator\u2019s three decades in power \u2026 In the West, the Soviet purges of the late 1930s or the gulag aren\u2019t discussed with the same authority or regularity as Kristallnacht or the concentration camps. The fundamental illogic of the USSR, hellbent on consuming its own, is as hard for outsiders to explain as it is to understand. And the complexity of Stalinism\u2019s impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe remains underexplored, literarily speaking. Lithuanian-American historical novelist Ruta Sepetys, author of the World War II refugee novel <em>Salt to the Sea<\/em>, is hoping to expand the frame of stories told about forgotten places and forgotten times: \u2018I\u2019d love to see more fiction about countries like Hungary, Armenia, and Ukraine. 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