{"id":96997,"date":"2016-04-15T09:21:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T13:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=96997"},"modified":"2016-04-15T11:26:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T15:26:59","slug":"the-glories-of-word-processing-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/15\/the-glories-of-word-processing-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Glories of Word Processing, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_96999\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/xerox-860-secretary-ad.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-96999\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96999\" class=\"wp-image-96999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/xerox-860-secretary-ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/xerox-860-secretary-ad.jpg 619w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/xerox-860-secretary-ad-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-96999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From an ad for the Xerox 860.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Our Southern editor, John Jeremiah Sullivan, on David Foster Wallace\u2019s tennis writing: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/david-foster-wallaces-perfect-game\" target=\"_blank\">David Foster Wallace wrote about tennis because life gave it to him<\/a> \u2026 He wrote about it in fiction, essays, journalism, and reviews; it may be his most consistent theme at the surface level. Wallace himself drew attention, consciously or not, to both his love for the game and its relevance to how he saw the world \u2026 For me, the cumulative effect of Wallace\u2019s tennis-themed nonfiction is a bit like being presented with a mirror, one of those segmented mirrors they build and position in space, only this one is pointed at a writer\u2019s mind. The game he writes about is one that, like language, emphasizes the closed system, makes a fetish of it (\u2018Out!\u2019). He seems both to exult and to be trapped in its rules, its cruelties. He loves the game but yearns to transcend it.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Everyone likes to shit on Microsoft Word now, but Dylan Hicks, reviewing Matthew G. Kirschenbaum\u2019s <em>Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing<\/em>, reminds us that the genesis of word processors was an exciting time to be a writer\u2014and that word processing offered a glimpse of perfection: \u201cCulling from specialized publications, mainstream journalism, and author interviews, <a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/review\/type-slowly-word-processing-and-literary-composition\" target=\"_blank\">Kirschenbaum recaptures the excitement and optimism writers often felt in the face of this magical new technology. To many, word processing seemed to promise a new possibility for aesthetic perfection<\/a>. \u2018Perfect\u2019 was the leading marketing keyword, found in ad copy and in product names such as WordPerfect, Letter Perfect, and Perfect Writer, and more than a few novelists greeted the mantra as something more than hype. If, in one traditional view, literary perfection was either illusory or the province of poems and other short works, now, it seemed, even a long novel could be refined to an apotheosis of unalterable integrity. The modularity of word-processed text made major structural reorganization a matter of a few clicks (well, you\u2019d probably need to switch back and forth between several floppy disks). You could tinker endlessly with sentences: transposing phrases, deleting a comma, replacing an adjective, restoring the comma. You could search out and decimate pet words and phrases. Hannah Sullivan, a scholar quoted by Kirschenbaum, wrote in 2013 that, with word processing, \u201cthe cost of revision\u201d had \u2018fallen almost to zero.\u2019 Kirschenbaum quotes a 1988 interview with Anne Rice in which she held that, with word processing, \u2018there\u2019s really no excuse for not writing the perfect book.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>The main problem with using enormous mirrors to communicate with extraterrestrials is that it\u2019s too expensive. Yes, it sounds like a surefire way to make contact\u2014you just rig up a heliotrope and beam a lot of light to the moon, where all aliens live\u2014but when Victorian-era inventors tried to make good on this idea, they realized that mirrors aren\u2019t cheap. Sarah Laskow explains: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/victorians-wanted-to-contact-aliens-using-giant-mirrors\" target=\"_blank\">In 1874, Charles Cros, a French inventor with a flair for poetry (or, perhaps, a poet with a flair for invention), floated the idea of focusing electric light on Mars or Venus using parabolic mirrors<\/a>. The next year, in 1875, Edvard Engelbert Neovius came up with\u00a0a scheme involving 22,500 electric lamps. Then, an astronomer writing under the name A. Mercier proposed putting a series of reflectors on the Eiffel Tower, which would capture light at sunset and redirect it towards Mars \u2026 In 1909, William Pickering, the American astronomer who &#8230;\u00a0proposed the existence of a Planet O, gave some idea why. He calculated that a system of mirrors that could reach across the distance from Earth to Mars would cost about $10 million to construct.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Eileen Myles on living in Marfa: \u201cI went to Marfa on a Lannan residency in March of 2015 &amp; fell in love with the place. I had been hearing about Marfa forever and grumpily thinking why can\u2019t I get invited there though most of my friends who had been there are visual artists but I wanted in. I think I even told the Lannan people about my deep frustration as I was accepting the invitation. <a href=\"http:\/\/logger.believermag.com\/post\/142797371084\/big-bend\" target=\"_blank\">Everyone loves Marfa though some people love to laugh at it because it\u2019s the most delightful combination of rough and twee. Things are falling down but there\u2019s always someone there to catch it for a year and put a sign on it and make it cool<\/a>. It sees itself and yet the land is always hovering\u00a0\u2026 But driving that stretch which is bordered by mountains is my real vista. I like to listen to music and drive along that road and sometimes the train passes. That\u2019s heaven to me.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s Friday, people. Get out there and befriend a pelican. The dean of a Czech medical school did it, so you can, too: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/04\/15\/this-mans-bond-with-a-pelican-will-make-you-wish-you-had-a-feath\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Vladim\u00edr Kom\u00e1rek, the dean of the\u00a0Second Faculty of Medicine at Charles University\u00a0in Prague, met his college\u2019s adopted pelican and immediately had a bond with it<\/a> \u2026 In\u00a0an interview posted on the university\u2019s website, the dean said the faculty had adopted a pelican at Prague Zoo, but he had never personally visited it \u2026 He scooped up his new feathered friend in his arms and posed for the cameras. Many commenters lightheartedly suggested that the duo shared the same haircut, and said this was why they appeared to get on so well. The bird seemed calm in his arms, despite the fact he was a human stranger.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Southern editor, John Jeremiah Sullivan, on David Foster Wallace\u2019s tennis writing: \u201cDavid Foster Wallace wrote about tennis because life gave it to him \u2026 He wrote about it in fiction, essays, journalism, and reviews; it may be his most consistent theme at the surface level. 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