{"id":98653,"date":"2016-05-27T00:57:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T04:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=98653"},"modified":"2016-05-27T10:16:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T14:16:17","slug":"more-public-spirited-pigs-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/more-public-spirited-pigs-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"More Public-spirited Pigs, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_98655\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/animal-farm1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98655\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98655\" class=\"wp-image-98655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/animal-farm1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/animal-farm1.jpg 1916w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/animal-farm1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/animal-farm1-768x534.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/animal-farm1-1024x712.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-98655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eliot (not pictured) disapproves.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>As an editor at Faber &amp; Faber, T. S. Eliot had the chance to publish <em>Animal Farm<\/em>. He declined. And he had sound porcine reasons for doing so, according to a newly digitized letter he wrote Orwell in 1944: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/may\/26\/ts-eliot-rejection-george-orwell-animal-farm-british-library-online\" target=\"_blank\">The positive point of view, which I take to be generally Trotskyite, is not convincing<\/a> \u2026 After all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm\u2014in fact, there couldn\u2019t have been an Animal Farm at all without them: so that what was needed (someone might argue), was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Memorial Day has only been around for about 150 years, meaning it\u2019s not terribly old as far as memorials go. Consider instead the Bayeux Tapestry, which likely dates to the 1070s. Alison Kinney writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berfrois.com\/2015\/05\/alison-kinney-bayeux-embroidery\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s a seventy-by one-half-meter length of linen panels worked in crewel, its madder-, mignonette-, and woad-dyed yarns still as vivid, after a thousand years, as the tints of the Art Nouveau comic strip\u00a0<em>Little Nemo<\/em><\/a> \u2026 The medievalist\u00a0Valerie Allen\u00a0writes about the Bayeux Embroidery\u2019s \u2018dynamic things grounded in space and time,\u2019 \u2018from kitchen utensils to war gear \u2026 Objects acquire a kind of agency by exerting their inherent \u201cvirtue,\u201d wearing down conventional distinctions between human and non-human to the point that a hand, a sword and a relic can all share in the same phenomenal luminosity.\u2019 The Embroidery itself is just such a luminous agent: a war memorial\u2014a Normandy Beach war memorial, no less. In this place occupied by hundreds of memorials, planned and incidental, fleeting and obdurate, from funerary sculpture to the bunkers that, after seventy years of coastal weather, still bear flamethrowers\u2019 char marks, memorials develop unpredictable, unaccountable vibrancies that can shape the conflicts, even the topography, of later battles. That is, if they can first escape violence, neglect, and ordinary wear and tear.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Because your day needed the phrase <em>intravaginal hardware for the pregnant body<\/em> in it, here is Sasha Archibald on a thrilling development in consumer electronics: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/rhizome.org\/editorial\/2016\/may\/26\/the-babypod-intravaginal-hardware-for-the-pregnant-body\/\" target=\"_blank\">A company in Spain recently released a new product, the Babypod. The device entails a small roundish speaker<\/a> \u2026 The idea is to insert the speaker inside one\u2019s vagina, like a tampon, and connect the auxiliary jack to an iPhone, from which the mother-DJ selects a playlist. The music is piped in directly where it can be heard best \u2026 Women have presumably always enjoyed the utility of an interior pocket, though no one has written this history. The nineteenth-century spirit medium Eva C. had a trick of producing ectoplasm from her vagina, and police report finding jewels and drugs, money and handguns, stolen phones and credit cards. In these cases, the vagina is treated as a secret lockbox\u2014a hiding place no one will think to look, the corporeal equivalent of a buried treasure chest. The Babypod inhabits the woman in a totally different fashion. The very purpose of the device is to announce itself and broadcast sound. It makes the vagina speak.\u00a0<em>The Vagina Monologues\u00a0<\/em>didn\u2019t need to get more literal, but they have.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>While we\u2019re in the vicinity of the genitals: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/media-groin-draymond-green-steven-adams\/\" target=\"_blank\">When reporters are forced to write about sportsmen kicking each other in the nuts, what do they write? This week has provided some answers<\/a> \u2026 In ninety-six articles, totaling a little more than fifty thousand\u00a0words, <em>groin<\/em> was used 148 times across headlines, body and photo captions. Of course, in sports, groin injuries can mean something very different from your basic knee to the crotch. So at best, this creates unnecessary ambiguity in order to demur from coarser language. The next most frequently used was some form of <em>below the belt<\/em>\u00a0with seventeen appearances, followed by <em>nuts<\/em>\u00a0with fifteen, <em>low blow<\/em>\u00a0with fourteen, a few variations of <em>private parts<\/em>\u00a0totaling twelve, <em>between the legs<\/em>\u00a0with ten, and <em>balls<\/em> with nine.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There\u2019s one last thing you need to do before the holiday weekend, and that\u2019s to engage in a debate about canon formation with whomever is sitting nearby. As a launching-off point, consider this: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/xx_factor\/2016\/05\/24\/yale_students_want_to_remake_the_english_major_requirements_but_there_s.html\" target=\"_blank\">A great artist possesses both empathy and imagination: Many of Shakespeare\u2019s female characters are as complexly nuanced as any in circulation today,\u00a0<em>Othello\u00a0<\/em>takes on racial prejudice directly, and\u00a0<em>Twelfth Night <\/em>contains enough gender-bending identity shenanigans to fuel multiple drag shows and occupy legions of queer scholars<\/a> \u2026 Although you\u2019ve written that the English department \u2018actively contributes to the erasure of history,\u2019 what it really does is accurately reflect the tainted history we have\u2014one in which straight white cis-men dominated art-making for centuries\u2014rather than the woke history we want and fantasize about. There are few (arguably no) female poets writing in Chaucer\u2019s time who rival Chaucer in wit, transgressiveness, texture, or psychological insight. The lack of equal opportunity was a tremendous injustice stemming from oppressive social norms, but we can\u2019t reverse it by willing brilliant female\u00a0wordsmiths into the past. Same goes for people of color in Wordsworth\u2019s day, or openly queer people in Pope\u2019s, or \u2026 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an editor at Faber &amp; Faber, T. S. Eliot had the chance to publish Animal Farm. He declined. And he had sound porcine reasons for doing so, according to a newly digitized letter he wrote Orwell in 1944: \u201cThe positive point of view, which I take to be generally Trotskyite, is not convincing \u2026 [&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":[9002,22535,22532,22531,13918,22534,22537,4840,22533,687,7667,14082,1572,11252,1772,22536,2393],"class_list":["post-98653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-animal-farm","tag-babypod","tag-bayeaux-embroidery","tag-bayeaux-tapestry","tag-canon-formation","tag-crotch","tag-dead-white-guys","tag-george-orwell","tag-groin","tag-language","tag-memorial-day","tag-memorials","tag-motherhood","tag-rejections","tag-t-s-eliot","tag-vaginas","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>When T. 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