{"id":98467,"date":"2016-05-23T09:17:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T13:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=98467"},"modified":"2016-05-23T10:14:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T14:14:12","slug":"the-nostalgia-of-constipation-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/23\/the-nostalgia-of-constipation-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nostalgia of Constipation, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_98469\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/dulcolaxad.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98469\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98469\" class=\"wp-image-98469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/dulcolaxad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/dulcolaxad.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/dulcolaxad-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/dulcolaxad-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-98469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a vintage Dulcolax ad.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>On the streets of English, adverbs are the knockoff Rolex salesmen lurking in the shadows, always ready to sell you something shiny and fake. Christian Lorentzen urges you to stay away: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2016\/05\/could-we-just-lose-the-adverb-already.html\">The adverbs easiest to hate are the so-called sentence adverbs\u2014also known as conjunctive adverbs<\/a>. Writers who lean on the crutches of <em>moreover<\/em>, <em>accordingly<\/em>, <em>consequently<\/em>, and <em>likewise<\/em> are declaring a lack of confidence in the sequence of their own logic or a lack of faith in their readers\u2019 ability to follow it. Deploying <em>indeed<\/em> is tantamount to saying, \u2018I\u2019ve just had a thought and, indeed, I\u2019ve just had another.\u2019 Next time you come across the word <em>meanwhile<\/em>, ask yourself when else all this could have been happening. What is the adverbial phrase <em>of course<\/em> but a smug duo dropped in to congratulate writer and reader for already agreeing with each other. <em>Nevertheless<\/em>, <em>nonetheless<\/em>, and the atrocious <em>however<\/em> are symptoms of an anxiety over a proliferation of the word <em>but<\/em>. But you can never have too many helpings of <em>but<\/em>, and sound thinking will make hay of contradictions.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in bowel movements: they\u2019re never as good as they used to be. As Maggie Koerth-Baker writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/gut-week-history-of-constipation\/\">Since at least the Renaissance, Western cultures have fretted about their own bowels while looking back to an imagined past where mankind pooped in peace and harmony<\/a>. According to James Whorton, professor emeritus of medical history and ethics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, modern life has long been considered the ultimate cause of constipation. Take, for instance, a bit of doggerel poetry from mid-1600s England: \u2018And for to make us emulate, \/ The good old Father doth relate \/ The vigour of our Ancestors, \/ Whose shiting far exceeded ours\u2019 \u2026 More than just nostalgia, though, the belief that modern lifestyles caused constipation was viewed as a medical emergency, on the scale of what we think of the obesity epidemic today.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Most historical fiction aspires to verisimilitude\u2014the author hopes to convince readers that she\u2019s conjured an accurate version of the past. But \u201ca handful of recent works of fiction,\u201d Lucy Ives writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/how-archival-fiction-upends-our-view-of-history\">have taken up history on radically different terms. Rather than presenting a single, definitive story\u2014an ostensibly objective chronicle of events\u2014these books offer a past of competing perspectives, of multiple voices.<\/a> They are not so much historical as archival: instead of giving us the imagined experience of an event, they offer the ambiguous traces that such events leave behind. These fictions do not focus on fact but on fact\u2019s record, the media by which we have any historical knowledge at all. In so doing, such books call the reader\u2019s attention to both the problems and the pleasures of history\u2019s linguistic remains \u2026 restoring historical narratives to what they have perhaps always already been: provoking and serious fantasies, convincing reconstructions, true fictions.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>When I pass by a beautiful woman, the first thing I think is, God, I hope she doesn\u2019t get tuberculosis. Then I think, She probably already has tuberculosis. I\u2019m especially inclined to believe this if the woman is dressed in a high Victorian style\u2014in the nineteenth century, I have learned, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/how-tuberculosis-shaped-victorian-fashion-180959029\/?is_pocket=1\">one of the ways people judged a woman\u2019s predisposition to tuberculosis was by her attractiveness, [historian Carol] Day says. \u2018That\u2019s because tuberculosis enhances those things that are already established as beautiful in women,\u2019 she explains, such as the thinness and pale skin that result from weight loss and the lack of appetite caused by the disease<\/a>. [A 1909 book]\u00a0confirms this notion, with the authors noting: \u2018A considerable number of patients have, and have had for years previous to their sickness, a delicate, transparent skin, as well as fine, silky hair.\u2019 Sparkling or dilated eyes, rosy cheeks and red lips were also common in tuberculosis patients\u2014characteristics now known to be caused by frequent low-grade fever.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Pity the Emily Dickinson biographers, for theirs is a life of mystery and suffering: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/133612\/emily-dickinson-isnt\">In the twenty-first century, Emily Dickinson has become very much about our selves, an interpretation that has been allowed to flourish partly because of her anonymity<\/a>: The bulk of her poems, of course, were published after she died, and she lived with her parents all her life, unmarried and leaving letters that only hint at possible lovers, hardly ever leaving her home. During the last thirty years, it has been many writers\u2019 impulse to try her on, explore the \u2018masks,\u2019 as [Jerome] Charyn calls them, that she wore in her poems, and give motive to her writings through more expressive means.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the streets of English, adverbs are the knockoff Rolex salesmen lurking in the shadows, always ready to sell you something shiny and fake. Christian Lorentzen urges you to stay away: \u201cThe adverbs easiest to hate are the so-called sentence adverbs\u2014also known as conjunctive adverbs. Writers who lean on the crutches of moreover, accordingly, consequently, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[15673,22475,22473,22474,21251,2056,231,12552,2861,687,4693,9791,19202,2393],"class_list":["post-98467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-adverbs","tag-archival-fiction","tag-bowel-movements","tag-constipation","tag-consumption","tag-emily-dickinson","tag-grammar","tag-historical-fiction","tag-history","tag-language","tag-nostalgia-2","tag-tuberculosis","tag-victorian-fashion","tag-words"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Didn\u2019t This Used to be Easier? 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