{"id":98203,"date":"2016-05-16T09:10:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T13:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=98203"},"modified":"2016-05-16T10:31:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T14:31:37","slug":"more-novels-starring-coins-please-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/16\/more-novels-starring-coins-please-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"More Novels Starring Coins, Please, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_98204\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/one-euro-coin-arms-legs-run-d-illustration-39595474.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98204\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98204\" class=\"wp-image-98204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/one-euro-coin-arms-legs-run-d-illustration-39595474.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/one-euro-coin-arms-legs-run-d-illustration-39595474.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/one-euro-coin-arms-legs-run-d-illustration-39595474-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/one-euro-coin-arms-legs-run-d-illustration-39595474-768x584.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/one-euro-coin-arms-legs-run-d-illustration-39595474-1024x779.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-98204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Only this watermarked stock photo of a walking one-euro coin truly captures the thrill of novels with currency at their centers.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>I find novels starring people\u2014or any animate creatures, really\u2014to be unthinkably dull. For this reason I do most of my reading in the mid to late eighteenth century, when novels with inanimate objects at their centers enjoyed a brief but memorable time in the literary limelight. The most famous one was told from the perspective of a coin: \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/how-novels-came-to-be-written-in-the-voice-of-coins-stuffed-animals-and-other-random-objects\">Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea\u00a0<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/how-novels-came-to-be-written-in-the-voice-of-coins-stuffed-animals-and-other-random-objects\" target=\"_blank\">thrilled contemporary readers with \u2018Views of several striking Scenes,\u2019 an insider\u2019s account of the scandalous doings of the \u2018most Noted Persons in every Rank of Life,\u2019 and tales from the gold mines of Peru, the streets of London, the canals of Amsterdam, the ports of the Caribbean, and the front lines of the Great War<\/a> \u2026 It was a tipping point for what are frequently referred to as \u2018it-narratives.\u2019 It-narratives, also called \u2018novels of circulation\u2019 or \u2018object narratives,\u2019 are novels or stories that take an inanimate object or an animal as its narrator \u2026 With a market proven, writers for hire began churning them out with variable quality. By 1781,\u00a0a bored reviewer in\u00a0<em>The Critical Review<\/em>\u00a0complained, \u2018This mode of making up a book, and styling it the Adventures of a Cat, a Dog, a Monkey, a Hackney-coach, a Louse, a Shilling, a Rupee, or\u2014any thing else, is grown so fashionable now, that few months pass which do not bring one of them under our inspection.\u2019 \u201d\n<\/li>\n<li>In which Nabokov, talking to us from 1926, attempts to make sense of his exile: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/on-generalities\/\" target=\"_blank\">There is a very seductive and very dangerous demon: the demon of generalities<\/a>. He captivates man\u2019s thought by marking every phenomenon with a little label, and punctiliously placing it together with another, similarly carefully wrapped and numbered phenomenon. Through him a field of human knowledge as changeable as history is turned into a neat little office, where this many wars and that many revolutions sleep in folders\u2014and where we can pore over bygone ages in complete comfort. This demon is fond of words such as <em>idea<\/em>, <em>tendency<\/em>, <em>influence<\/em>, <em>period<\/em>, and <em>era<\/em>. In the historian\u2019s study this demon reductively combines in hindsight the phenomena, influences, and tendencies of past ages. With this demon comes appalling tedium\u2014the knowledge (utterly mistaken, by the way) that, however humanity plays its hand or fights back, it follows an implacable course. This demon should be feared. He is a fraud. He is a salesman of centuries, pushing his historical price list.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in dramatic acts of digital preservation: if ever the <em>Daily<\/em> shuts down, we hope to survive in a kind of bardic oral tradition, having former readers pass down our stories one at a time through the generations, at great length and with little regard for accuracy. The website hi.co, which I\u2019d never heard of before about ten minutes ago, is taking fewer chances. Instead of vanishing into the mists of time, they\u2019re keeping their users\u2019 contributions \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2016\/5\/13\/11670102\/hi-co-closing-archive\" target=\"_blank\">in a nickel-plate \u2018book\u2019 designed to be readable for the next 10,000 years<\/a> \u2026 Everything on the site\u2014roughly two million words and fourteen thousand photos\u2014will be etched in microscopic size onto a series of nickel plates. Everything will be readable with an optical microscope.\u201d (One of the site\u2019s founders notes that the plates are \u201cfire resistant\u201d and \u201cdeal well with saltwater.\u201d)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Some drink to remember, some drink to forget. Pour yourself a glass of marc and you can do both: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/2016\/05\/water-life-s-memento-death\" target=\"_blank\">With\u00a0<em>marc<\/em>, my favorite\u00a0<em>digestif<\/em>, both the mortality and the miracle are there in the glass: sip it and you taste the pulverized remains (stems, grape skins, pips) of the wine refined to make it, as well as experiencing resurrection through distillation, in those unpromising oenological afterthoughts given new life<\/a>. A\u00a0<em>marc\u00a0<\/em>is like a\u00a0<em>vanitas<\/em>, the skull that artists once included in paintings to deliver a warning that no pleasure, however great, can last. Behind the smooth sophistication of strong, well-made alcohol, there is the musty hint of old grape skins\u2014a pungent reminder that even the magic of alcohol cannot make a grape, or a drinker, eternal.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Philosophy departments are among the most Eurocentric in all of academe\u2014which is fine, as long as they practice truth in advertising. Write to your congressman: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/11\/opinion\/if-philosophy-wont-diversify-lets-call-it-what-it-really-is.html?hpw&amp;rref=opinion&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=well-region&amp;region=bottom-well&amp;WT.nav=bottom-well&amp;mtrref=www.nytimes.com&amp;assetType=opinion\" target=\"_blank\">Any department that regularly offers courses only on Western philosophy should rename itself \u2018Department of European and American Philosophy\u2019<\/a> \u2026 We hope that American philosophy departments will someday teach Confucius as routinely as they now teach Kant, that philosophy students will eventually have as many opportunities to study the <em>Bhagavad Gita<\/em> as they do the <em>Republic<\/em>, that\u00a0the Flying Man thought experiment\u00a0of the Persian philosopher Avicenna (980\u20131037) will be as well-known as the\u00a0Brain-in-a-Vat thought experiment\u00a0of the American philosopher Hilary Putnam (1926\u20132016), that the ancient Indian scholar\u00a0Candrakirti\u2019s critical examination of the concept of the self will be as well-studied as David Hume\u2019s<em>,\u00a0<\/em>that\u00a0Frantz Fanon\u00a0(1925\u20131961),\u00a0Kwasi Wiredu\u00a0(1931\u2013 ),\u00a0Lame Deer\u00a0(1903\u20131976) and Maria Lugones\u00a0will be as familiar to our students as their equally profound colleagues in the contemporary philosophical canon. But, until then, let\u2019s be honest, face reality and call departments of European-American Philosophy what they really are.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find novels starring people\u2014or any animate creatures, really\u2014to be unthinkably dull. For this reason I do most of my reading in the mid to late eighteenth century, when novels with inanimate objects at their centers enjoyed a brief but memorable time in the literary limelight. 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