{"id":99431,"date":"2016-06-17T09:33:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T13:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=99431"},"modified":"2016-06-17T10:27:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T14:27:05","slug":"with-some-help-from-my-invisible-friends-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/17\/with-some-help-from-my-invisible-friends-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"With Some Help from My Invisible Friends, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_99443\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/xgh.015.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-99443\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99443\" class=\"wp-image-99443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/xgh.015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/xgh.015.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/xgh.015-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-99443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgiana Houghton, <i>Glory be to God<\/i>, ca. 1868.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in really, really, really, really depressing things that Silicon Valley people say with casual authority: Nicola Mendelsohn, a Facebook exec, gave a presentation in London where she claimed \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/706461\/facebook-is-predicting-the-end-of-the-written-word\/\" target=\"_blank\">that stats showed the written word becoming all but obsolete, replaced by moving images and speech \u2026 \u2018The best way to tell stories in this world, where so much information is coming at us, actually is video,\u2019<\/a> Mendelsohn said. \u2018It conveys so much more information in a much quicker period. So actually the trend helps us to digest much more information.\u2019 In the room, there was a perceptible shifting\u2014perhaps because the written word seems a rather major aspect of civilization to dispatch with so quickly. But it won\u2019t disappear entirely, Mendelsohn assured the crowd: \u2018You\u2019ll have to write for the video.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1871, Georgiana Houghton debuted her \u201cspirit drawings,\u201d a set of abstract watercolors that she made with the encouragement of her \u201cinvisible friends.\u201d People were scared: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/2016\/06\/a-pioneering-19th-century-abstract-artist-is-brought-back-to-life-at-the-courtauld\/\" target=\"_blank\">What she put on display was unlike anything any Western artist had made, or any member of the British public had ever seen<\/a>. The watercolor drawings, a little larger than A4, were intricately detailed abstract compositions filled with sinuous spirals, frenetic dots, and sweeping lines. Yellows, greens, blues, and reds battled with each other for space on the paper. The densely layered images appeared to have no form, and no beginning or end. There was no traditional perspective to enjoy. There was no mythological subject to interpret; no moral narrative to read, and no hint of portraiture or landscape to scrutinize.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s been a while since we thought about how worthless most literary depictions of sex are, so let\u2019s think about that some more: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2016\/06\/lets-not-get-it-on-the-indefensible-sex-scene.html\" target=\"_blank\">Literature about sex, no matter who has written it, is almost always terrible, and everybody knows it<\/a> \u2026 In writing my own book full of sex, there was almost no one I could turn to for inspiration. There wasn\u2019t a single book I looked to and thought, \u2018What I\u2019m trying to do is write sex like she did or like he did.\u2019 There weren\u2019t even movies and TV shows I felt had handled it the way I wanted to see it done. You know what movies and TV shows are really brilliant at capturing? Bad sex. They\u2019re great at doing awkward, depressing, uncomfortable sex scenes where everyone is sort of strangled in the sheets \u2026 The other thing that movies and TV shows are good at nailing down is the kind of phonily intense sex scene in which the involved parties are grabbing fistfuls of hair and grunting and slamming each other around because their passion, their <em>chemistry<\/em>, is so overpowering it can\u2019t be softened by courtesy, affection, or fear of causing actual physical harm.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>To read the medieval poem \u201cPearl\u201d requires a fairly sophisticated knowledge of the New Testament. But just go ahead and read it anyway. You will still like it, as Josephine Livingstone explains: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-strange-power-of-a-medieval-poem-about-the-death-of-a-child\" target=\"_blank\">There is something about the very strangeness of the poem that magnifies its emotional power<\/a>. When we look at a Byzantine mosaic, for instance, we may not grasp the precise meaning of its images without scholarly help\u2014but that remoteness lends such artworks the marvelousness of something just beyond our understanding. In his new translation of \u2018Pearl,\u2019 Simon Armitage, who is currently the Oxford Professor of Poetry, conveys that feeling of the almost-but-not-quite comprehensible, the feeling that can make medieval art at once eerie and wonderful.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On Jacques Audiard\u2019s new film <em>Dheepan<\/em>, which depicts a Sri Lankan family escaping to the Paris ghetto: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2016\/06\/15\/hunting-the-truth-in-paris-ghetto-dheepan\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Parisian fields are a motley sort of place, self-governing\u2014if you can call checkpoints controlled by the local drug don a form of self-government\u2014inhabited by a mix of north African Arabs, Cameroonians, and Armenians<\/a>. But not, however, Sri Lankans\u2014who have contributed relatively little to France\u2019s migrant waves, and are little known there. Between the main characters and their adoptive home there is no flicker of recognition, no colonial history to interpose even a reassuring mutual dislike. Plonked somewhere in the girdle of mongrel Frenchness on the outskirts of modern Paris, oblivious to the snippets of Arabic around them, they are recognized as vaguely Indian. Dheepan, who has refashioned himself as an odd-job man, is known simply as \u2018Mowgli.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in really, really, really, really depressing things that Silicon Valley people say with casual authority: Nicola Mendelsohn, a Facebook exec, gave a presentation in London where she claimed \u201cthat stats showed the written word becoming all but obsolete, replaced by moving images and speech \u2026 \u2018The best way to tell stories in this world, 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