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July 2016 (III)
18, 19, 21, 22 July
Monday 18th
Not too long ago, after Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan inflicted yet another crackdown on journalists, generals, or other dissidents, I predicted (to Kathleen) that he was going to have a coup on his hands if he didn't ease up. Kathleen and I talk about Turkey regularly, having spent an extraordinary week in Istanbul in 2005, when Erdoğan was still new to office. He embodied the hope that cultural Islam and liberal democracy could work together. There were signs of the strongman to come, but we preferred to look on the bright side. Our emphatically secular Turkish hosts, however, did not see a bright side. Keeping up with Turkish affairs after our return, we came to share their pessimism.
On Friday evening, Kathleen called to say that she was leaving the office and would be home soon, and, by the way, there was a coup in Turkey. For about five minutes, I all but chuckled with self-congratulation. Then my dancing in the streets came to an end. Like most political dreamers, I had savored the delicious prospect of the End of Erdoğan. I had not given much thought to the Beginning of What Next. Whatever might be next, the confused and very limited reports that were available online did not promise a smooth transition. As Friday ticked into Saturday, I found myself hoping that Erdoğan would reassert himself and crush the coup. Which was bitter medicine indeed, since the man is an exemplar of the kind of leader who may be ushering today's liberal democracies into vastly more repressive states of illiberal populism.
I want to contrast Turkey with China. China is very large country with some very large problems. Its financial health appears at times to depend on the structural integrity of a house of cards. Its élite is peculiarly unmeritocratic, composed of the children of long-dead revolutionaries, many of whom suffered disgrace. A vaulting national pride, if checked by the consequences of official miscalculation, could easily turn rancid. But if China "collapsed," its own mass would absorb most of the energy released. The disaster would probably not spread to neighboring countries. It may be conventional to translate the Chinese for "China" (Zhongguo "中國/中国") as "Middle Kingdom," but a far more accurate rendering is "Central Country," where "central" has the powerful resonance of the statement, "The sun is the central body in our solar system." In this sense, however, China is greater than the sun, because it already contains its own periphery. And it has a history of collapsing every two to two hundred and fifty years.
Turkey is not a small country, and it has its share of problems. But it is no central country. It is a fragment of the Ottoman Empire, which was run — "governed" would not be the word — by a Turkish dynasty until shortly after World War I. Most provinces of the old empire are today's Middle-Eastern trouble spots. Turkey also shares its borders with some remnants of the more recent Soviet Empire, whose local instability has been squeezed by Vladimir Putin. Turkey's most serious internal problem is a border issue of sorts: Kurdistan. Kurdistan is yet another poisoned fruit of the treaties that refashioned the Middle East after World War I. Kurdistan does not exist, of course, but the Kurds were promised by the diplomats that it would come into being at some point. Like almost every other conflict in the Middle East, the question of Kurdistan was postponed by larger twentieth-century upheavals, and then forestalled by the Cold War.
That was my first thought: disarray in Ankara would provide Kurds with an excellent opportunity to rally to their own nationalist cause in Diyarbakir. More violence! What would Russia do? What about Greece, with its islands, like Lesbos, within sight of the Turkish mainland? What if one thing, as it always does, led to another? What if opposition to the military coup led to a surge in support for Da'esh (ISIS)? Good grief! This was no time for Turkey to be falling apart.
Unhappy but relieved by the suppression of the coup, I thought of Simon Winder and the "second step." Discussing the revolutions of 1848 in his charming history of the Hapsburgs, Danubia, Winder pointed that, while everybody seemed to want to overthrow the government, whichever government that might be, there was no consensus on what ought to happen next. The success of revolutions, he surmised, depends on the viability of an agreed-upon second step. Military coups prove the point. A consensus among a small number of top brass, together with the kind of expert plan of campaign that military organizations formulate as a matter of course, all but guarantees success. In Turkey, however, President Erdoğan has been purging the Army for ten years, and the resulting fragmentation of leadership is militarily anomalous. When I first heard of the coup, I was amazed by what must have been a profoundly secretive and extensive conspiracy. Except there wasn't one.
I wonder if I could get a job at the Strand Book Store. I know I could pass the quiz. They have a test, you see, to weed out illiterate applicants. It is not a difficult test. Well, I didn't think it was. The Times actually printed five versions of the quiz, and I was midway through the third one when I realized that the answer-pattern was constant. You had to match authors and titles; the first author went with the sixth title, and the last author went with the fourth. The "trick" question was that there was no title for the second author; correspondingly, there was no author for the eighth title. So, bully for me. The Times reported that there is no quiz for applicants at Barnes & Noble. There's a colossal understatement in there somewhere.
To give you an idea of what I do find challenging, here is a sentence from Helen Vendler's The Odes of John Keats:
I call this new form of conceptualization an advance because in Melancholy each of the mistress's companions is defined by a post-positioned clause which has a restrictive intent. (161)
What this means in plainer English is that the beauty of the mistress in the "Ode on Melancholy" will die, that Joy is always "bidding adieu," and that pleasure is "metabolized to poison not after, but during, the moment of the ingestion of that pleasure." When Vendler speaks of "advance," she is referring to the ways in which the "Ode on Melancholy" surpasses the achievements of the four odes that Keats had already written. In the warmer half of 1819, Keats wrote six odes, four of them extremely famous: the "Ode to a Nightingale," the "Ode on a Grecian Urn," the "Ode on Melancholy," and, finally, "To Autumn."
At the beginning of her book, Vendler tells us what inspired it.
The polemic impulse from which this book began arose when I read Allen Tate's judgment that the ode To Autumn "is a very nearly perfect piece of style but it has little to say." I thought that To Autumn said everything there was to say. (13)
I bought The Odes of John Keats because it was advertised, along with other books by Vendler, on the back jacket of her book on Shakespeare's sonnets. I have always admired the "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and I tried, in college, to commit the "Ode on Melancholy" to memory. For reasons not clear to me, I have always exempted Keats from my constitutional dislike of Romantic poetry. Keats can be as Romantic as it gets — I believe that what I mean by "Romantic" is what Vendler calls "luxurious" — but there is a firm foundation beneath the flowers. I have had the Oxford Standard Authors edition of Keats's Poetical Works since it cost $1.75 — all but a few years of my life.
I did not know that Vendler was also inspired to write about Keats by her study of Wallace Stevens, the subject of her first book, On Extended Wings. So much the better. Wallace Stevens has become very important to me. This is not to say that I "love his poetry." I don't "love poetry." But I live, if not on words, then on phrases, and poetry is the most concentrated kind of verbiage. The words in poetry — and by "poetry" I mean metrical verse; free verse I find just about as disagreeable as public nudity — are made to work hard, as is the reader of Helen Vendler. The reader of Helen Vendler must learn to sense at least a few of the words that a poet has not used for the important ones that he has.
Wallace Stevens liked to kid people who complained that they didn't understand his poetry by saying that it didn't matter, so long as he understood it. He also joked that the only way to understand it was to have written it. Vendler expressly recommends copying out poems in longhand, an exercise that I have yet to attempt. It is true that copying good poetry, even at a keyboard, is always surprisingly difficult, because while it usually sounds familiar (that is, it reads as regular English), it comprises numerous tiny departures from ordinary speech. Word-order might be inverted, or a somewhat uncommon verb be substituted for the one that you "remember," even right after reading the line. In the "Ode on Melancholy," one of the verses that I did manage to memorize does not read,
Though seen by none save him whose strenuous tongue
No; it reads "Though seen of none save him…" In The Hatred of Poetry, Ben Lerner starts out by telling us how clever he thought he was to select Marianne Moore's three-line "Poetry" for a classroom memorization assignment. In the event, he failed to recite it accurately not just once but in three attempts, much to his classmates' smirking satisfaction. There is something of the tongue-twister in these lines from Stevens's "The Idea of Order at Key West":
The sea was not a mask. No more was she.
The song and water were not medleyed sound
Even if what she sang was was she heard,
Since what she sang was uttered word by word,
It may be that in all her phrases stirred
The grinding water and the gasping wind;
But it was she and not the sea we heard.
Something of a mind-twister, too: I always want to say, "Since what she heard…" The deviation from expectation is what makes poetry surprising and fresh, and you miss it if you content yourself with reading a poem and turning the page. The great problem of poetry is that there is far too much of the very good stuff, more than anyone could ever practicably deal with in the manner that the enjoyment of poetry requires. You can read Shakespeare's sonnets all the way through — in fact, you must, to savor Shakespeare's grasp of the phases of love, as if they were the colors of the rainbow, leading from one to the next. But to delight in the sonnets, you must wrestle with them. You must memorize them of course, but you must also spot the instances of Shakespeare's saying this and not that.
What I can't decide is whether to equip myself with a biography of Keats. I don't know much about him. How, in the space of little more than twenty-five years, can there be much to know? He must have been reading or writing all the time; except he can't have been, given his professional studies as an apothecary and a surgeon. I did see Jane Campion's Bright Star once, but it seemed more about Jane Campion than about Keats (although Abbie Cornish was lovely). The problem is that Helen Vendler's book on the odes gives me the feeling of having overheard bits and pieces of a truly fascinating conversation. It may be that I have heard all the truly fascinating bits and pieces.
There is one development in the series of Keats's odes that even the untutored eye can discern. In "To Autumn," there is not a single reference to classical mythology. No goddess is mentioned, no Tempe or Arcady. There is only the harvest, and the stubble-plains from which it has been reaped. I am reminded of a passage from "Credences of Summer," the poem that made Wallace Stevens important to me (not least because I was listening to a recording of him reciting it): This is the barrenness/Of the fertile thing that can attain no more. It is entirely possible that Vendler will quote this in her remarks on "To Autumn," which I'm about midway through; she has been quoting Stevens throughout the book.
I don't love poetry; I love language, and poetry is to language as love is to a lover. Had I but world enough and time, I still wouldn't get through the half of it.
Tuesday 19
I must be doing something wrong. When I type in under35potus.com, nothing happens. If I ask Google, it returns a number of strange links, only one of which, to a story at Advertising Age, appears to be germane. Perhaps things are not quite up and running.
On page A5 of today's Times, there's a full-page ad for — for what? For Captain Morgan Rum? Or for a campaign to amend the constitution, to lower — and not, presumably, to eliminate altogether — the age restriction that denies eligibility to serve as president of the United States to persons under thirty-five years of age? The story in Ad Age asks if this is a serious political undertaking or a marketing stunt for the rum. Given the presence of Donald Trump on the scene, I don't think it makes much difference.
When I came of age, the jungle drums counseled us not to trust anyone over thirty. As I have a higher regard for Millennials as a generation than I do for fellow-boomers, I am not unwilling to consider a petition to lower the eligibility age. Although my personal experience supports the view that wisdom comes only with time, I see so little evidence of this in the people around me that it seems foolish to generalize from the one instance of me. Millennials do seem to regard current derangements with a healthy, scoffing WTF. They bring truly fresh minds, uncluttered by received ideas, to the problems that face us all. They are not invested (yet) in the sunk costs of their careers (also known as the status quo), and they are not distracted by the novelty of computers, any more than they are aware of the coeval novelty of themselves.
But the good side is the same as the bad side. What do Millennials know about anything? Knowledge is a kind of investment, and the very freshness of the generation suggests to me that any investment in knowledge has so far been provisional. Worse, I am almost certain that the kind of knowledge that I should call humanist — knowledge about human nature and its limitations, and especially about the compulsions to and the frustrations of human cooperation — is likely to be dismissed by Millennials as useless old crap. Given the state of humanist education, one almost has to hope that Millennials would have nothing to do with it. This is no bar to lowering the eligibility age, however, as the Millennials' elders are much worse: they think that they understand humanism. They don't call it that, and of course it isn't, but the jumble of pseudopsychology and playground heuristics that guide older people when they stop to think, which we must be grateful doesn't happen more often, is piled precisely where humanist insight ought to be. No one today is in a position to say that merely being older than thirty-five increases the strength of one's understanding. If a horde of kindergartners could be shown to be able to cancel Donald Trump's political viability, I'd vote for the little kiddies.
It is impossible, really, to look at the Captain Morgan ad without weeping tears of hope. Covering a little less than half a page of the Sunday Review section of the other day's Times, there was a piece by Stanley Fish for which I really think the Captain Morgan ad, however rum, may be the only antidote. Now, as we go through life, we inevitably encounter a few people who, try as they might, never fail to strike us as assholes. It is not that they do foolish things from time to time; rather, they are, existentially, assholes, incapable of being anything else. I am sure that I am so regarded by a number of the people into whom I have bumped in my scores of years. And I am sure that Stanley Fish will always represent to me the asshole of the most inveterate type. He will always be the overseer, or whatever he was at the time, of Duke University's Social Text, the learned journal which accepted Alan Sokal's parody of deconstructionist jargon, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," for publication in a 1996 issue. Fish will always be the idiot who defended the journal, in the Times, thus:
When Professor Sokal declares that "theorizing about 'the social construction of reality' won't help us find an effective treatment for AIDS," he is at once right and wrong. He is right that sociologists will never do the job assigned properly to scientists. He is wrong to imply that the failure of the sociology of science to do something it never set out to do is a mark against it.
My point is finally a simple one: A research project that takes the practice of science as an object of study is not a threat to that practice because, committed as it is to its own goals and protocols, it doesn't reach into, and therefore doesn't pose a danger to, the goals and protocols it studies. Just as the criteria of an enterprise will be internal to its own history, so will the threat to its integrity be internal, posed not by presumptuous outsiders but by insiders who decide not to play by the rules or to put the rules in the service of a devious purpose.
This means that it is Alan Sokal, not his targets, who threatens to undermine the intellectual standards he vows to protect. Remember, science is above all a communal effort. No scientist (and for that matter, no sociologist or literary critic) begins his task by inventing anew the facts he will assume, the models he will regard as exemplary and the standards he tries to be faithful to.
Lest you find dealing with this historic eyewash a struggle, I shall turn to what Stanley Fish had to say this weekend. His subject was historians. He was angry — perhaps that is too strong a word — at the historians who signed a public letter denouncing Donald Trump's candidacy, not because of the opinions expressed but because the historians claimed to be speaking ex cathedra, as historians, as though historians had any special insight into things. To Stanley Fish, the historians' opinions were no more and no less valid than anyone else's. He praised Ruth Bader Ginsburg for having made her deprecations of Donald Trump not from the bench but off the cuff, in her capacity as little old lady.
To demonstrate the historians' ultra vires, Stanley Fish took the trouble to outline those skills and protocols for which historians are professionally qualified to call themselves experts.
No, it's their job to teach students how to handle archival materials, how to distinguish between reliable and unreliable evidence, how to build a persuasive account of a disputed event, in short, how to perform as historians, not as seers or political gurus.
There is nothing wrong with this summary, except everything, because the whole point of history is elided. Stanley Fish mentions the kinds of expertise that, as experience has taught, will help the historian to do his job well. But what is his job? Would Stanley Fish limit it to "build[ing] a persuasive account of a disputed event"? Perhaps. All history is somewhat disputed, or at least certainly disputable, because what we know about the past isn't very much. But it happens to be all that we do know, and historians are the people who know what there is to know about the past. Some historians confine themselves to finding out more. Others, however, tells us what can be said about what we have been through as a species. They know our stories and they tell them well.
It is true that the idea of the historian as a storyteller has suffered a massive loss of prestige over the past several generations, along with the idea of history as literature. Stories and literature sit ill with the scientific urges, and pseudoscientific claims, of modern historians. At the same time, comprehensive histories — stories with lots of detail — are deemed boring by the public (they almost always have been). This is not to say that literary history has died out. One spine that leaps out from my bookshelf is Christopher Clark's compelling account of the run-up to World War I, The Sleepwalkers. Nearby stands Andrew Thompson's rather elegant life of George II, one of the kings of England who doesn't get mentioned at all in 1066 And All That, and also the subject of a myth about standing up for Handel's "Hallelujah!" (It cannot be said with certainty that George ever even heard Messiah.) But Thompson gives us a man who might quite intelligently take more interest in his position as a benevolent despot, as Elector of Hanover, than in his constitutionally checked role in a somewhat bourgeois game of politics. No, literary history is not dying. But how many Millennials are reading it? Who is teaching them to read it?
Who is making the case for history? Donald Trump's claim, that he will be able to make America great again, bristles with historical questions. When was America great, and who said so? What did greatness really entail? If it is impossible to go back in time, how can greatness, or anything else about America's past, be re-created? Donald Trump's listeners are not interested in these questions. But his opponents ought to be. It seems to me that one of the constraints that keeps the Democratic Party earthbound and uninspiring is the belief among many active Democrats that America has been a disappointment, which is one way of looking at things. I prefer to regard this country as a promise, if indeed a promise that a disappointing minority of Americans have felt moved to keep. It was a promise already broken by slavery, broken again by the Jacksonians, and by the Redemptionists, and by a host of cranks and charlatans. It is a promise that Abraham Lincoln fought to keep (although I believe that he was mistaken in his objectives). It is a promise to which FDR and LBJ gave a great deal of material realization. It is a promise that Republicans since Nixon have refused to recognize as such, much less to honor. But it is a promise that is endlessly renewed. I say all of this not as a historian but as someone who has learned a great deal from historians.
Nothing, nothing could be further from Donald Trump's language than the idea of the United States as a promise. The word itself would not pass from his lips.
De fil en aiguille, say the French. From the thread into the needle, or "one thing leading to another," only homelier, without the agency of leading. A while ago, I got round to watching Carol, Todd Haynes's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's second novel, The Price of Salt. That in turn led to watching Side Effects, in which Rooney Mara is almost as spellbinding as she is in Carol. It also led to re-reading Edith's Diary, a novel by Highsmith that I had grossly misremembered. It led to checking out IMDb, to see what other movies have been inspired by Highsmith's books, in addition to the well-known Hitchcock and Ripley entries, and coming across something called The Two Faces of January.
The novel was published in 1964. The movie, written by Hossein Amini (Drive, Shanghai) and directed by him as well (it's his only feature to date), came out in 2014. My movie attendance had already fallen off by then, but it surprised me to have missed a Highsmith adaptation starring Viggo Mortensen and Oscar Isaac. I am something of a completist about Oscar Isaac, so I had to see this movie. I ordered it, sight unseen from Amazon, and when it arrived, Kathleen and I watched it. We liked it — Kirsten Dunst is also very good in it — but we felt that something was missing. In other words, I wasn't surprised that I hadn't heard of it. I decided to read the novel.
Reading the novel after seeing the movie was one of the most exasperating experiences of my life. Why? Why? Why? Why had Amini fiddled with Highsmith's story? Before I had finished the first couple of chapters, I was aware that every deviation made by Amini from the novel was a mistake. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the climactic events at the Palace of Knossos, as I shall coyly refer to a surprising sudden death. Where Amini follows Highsmith, The Two Faces of January is lucid and exciting; where he differs, the movie muddles uncertainly. It almost goes without saying that the novel is vastly more exciting than the movie.
This is because of Highsmith's trademark ability to capture the weird and creepy shifts in an anxious person's state of mind. In Edith's Diary, Cliffie oscillates between triumph and despair with almost insensate giddiness; in the end, it's always luck that decides. In The Two Faces of January, there are two anxious people. One is anxious from the start; the other, by allowing a relationship to develop with the first, soon has good reason to be anxious as well. Highsmith, of course, can describe these flutters in luxuriant detail, and it is relatively difficult for a filmmaker to capture them. But that is what directing and acting are all about. And here I regretfully come up against the second objective problem with the adaptation. Much as I admire Oscar Isaac, he is not at all suited to play Rydal Keener, the damaged and aimless young American who forms a triangle with an American swindler and his much younger wife.
Rydal is a classic Highsmith creation. He could be Cliffie's first cousin. He is not a narcissist, but he is wrapped up in a wound that he suffered as a teenager — a wound exacerbated by a father to whom the swindler bears an uncanny resemblance. (The father has recently died, as we learn in the movie as well. But the movie does not make it clear that the swindler looks like the father twenty years ago — that, as is never doubted in the book, the swindler could not possibly be, actually, the father. Instead, the movie plays with this uncertainty, an intrusive red herring.) It occurred to me as I read that one of Oscar Isaac's recent costars, Domhnall Gleeson, would have made a much more plausible Rydal. Oscar Isaac is simply too solid, too sure in his body, and far too sexually confident to impersonate a man confused about his lovability.
The Now A Major Motion Picture edition of the novel describes Rydal on the back copy as "an American expat working as a tour guide, and running cons on the side." The Rydal actually within the covers is neither a tour guide nor a con. He is a Yale law-school graduate who is bitterly running through a legacy from his grandmother before returning to the States and settling down. He is more a mark than a con.
The game might be called Adventure. It depended on meeting the Right Person, male or female. Something would take place when his eyes met the eyes of the Right Person, there would be a shock of recognition, one of them would speak, they would have some kind of Adventure together — or there wouldn't be anything in the eyes, and absolutely nothing would happen. (12)
Rydal is smart, but not in Oscar Isaac's character's street-smart way. He is more of a Sherlock Holmes, working things out in his mind. He is scarily good at figuring out what is likely to happen next. This gives him strange powers over the swindler, who, at the beginning of the novel, is at the point of beginning to crumble into his own plinth, as if sinking in quicksand. Again, the book's finale is far more breathtaking than the shoot-out in the movie, even if the latter is set in Istanbul's Grand Bazaar. It is the perfect dissolution of a broken character — I actually thought of Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Where the judge reveals his nature as a cartoon character by dissolving in acetone, Highsmith's swindler dissolves in booze — never have I read a more convincing account of the horror of a blackout.
One final remark — I really don't want to spoil this treat for anyone; read the book, see the movie — concerns the title. Do you see the word "January" in the title? Yes, it's also a reference to the ambiguities of Janus, but it happens to be the month in which the action is set. In January, it is cold in sunny Greece, and cold is a leitmotif of the story. The movie's summer whites suggest a carefree way of life that no character in the book experiences for an instant. (Kirten Dunst would have looked so good, shivering in a mink stole!)
I haven't said anything about Viggo Mortensen. You might not recognize him, not only because he has graduated from cute young man to Joseph Cotton, but because he acts like Joseph Cotton, too. There is something finely wrinkled about his tentative behavior. As in the book, he loses his grip joule by joule. He, too, would have looked terrific in a more faithful adaptation, suddenly terrified of death and confessing his sins as if that would keep him going. Viggo Mortensen would have lit up at the end.
Thursday 21st
This will be brief. I have already written my quota of words for the day. (I don't begin to think about winding down until a total of two thousand is in sight.) But what I've written today is not going to appear here. I've kept it apart, as the start of something larger and longer, where it will be out of view for a good while. At a certain point, I shall ask a few friends to take a look, and then I shall decide whether to resume what I've been doing here, or to continue with the new thing. I hope to be able to do a bit of both — a thousand words there, a thousand words here. These things always take a while to figure out, because I'm making it all up. The process, I mean, not just the contents.
At some point, I've known, I was going to have to take a break from long entries here in order to begin work on the memoir that I've been sketching for nearly a year now — or for four years, or for ten, or fifteen, depending on how you want to look for beginnings. The difference between the sketches and the memoir proper is that the individual chapters of the memoir must be written in sequence, from beginning, through middle, to end. Everything must be introduced before it can be recognized, and each sentence must grow from the ones just before it. A great deal of the material in the sketches will be repeated, but I expect that it will be rewritten from scratch. I certainly have no intention of cutting and pasting the various entries at this site.
I expected as long ago as September that I'd be ready to begin with a serious full draft either by the summer of this year or never at all, and in the past couple of weeks I have felt stirrings of a change. Change is all that the shift has in common with giving birth: once there was nothing or nobody, then there is something or somebody. The commonplace of exploiting the image of gestation is misleading. I am not so overflowing with ideas that I must write them down. I have been writing them down. Now I need new ideas, ideas that come to mind only de fil en aiguille. I can pursue those ideas only by never putting down the needle and the thread, and also by writing privately. It is a great pleasure to write a few excited paragraphs and then to press the button that will publish them, and, as I say, I hope to continue doing that. But the new writing that I want to do requires a quiet that is at odds with publication. It is ridiculous for me to feel guilty about cutting back on the flow of verbiage here — not least because of abominable conceit — but I console myself, and, I hope, the regular reader as well, with the reflection that we shall all have more time for other things.
I had hoped that it would happen at the beginning of a week's entry, or, better, on the first of August, which this year will be the first of the week as well as the beginning of a month. August is the month for vacation. Last year, I returned from it with the determination to write as great deal more. Now, somewhat earlier than I had hoped, I am determined to write somewhere else.
I don't mind telling you that I wrote about Keats and Woolf today, and that the way that I wrote about them was the way that I should write about them here, not as any kind of expert in literary figures but as sources of interest and pleasure. I experienced a rather thrilling conjunction the other night, reading To the Lighthouse after having finished Helen Vendler's book, The Odes of John Keats. Thinking about it yesterday, on my midweek day off, I realized that I had arrived at the moment of decision: would I write up the experience as yet another blog entry, or would I mark the event as an auspicious point of entry, a way of beginning? I was queasily uncertain. By this morning, as I finished reading the Times, I was almost nauseous — although waiting to hear that Kathleen had landed in Portland (yet another long weekend away, but the last for a while) certainly contributed to the sea-sickness. Her call came just as I sat down at the desk, before I could pull the petals off too many daisies.
I will be honest about one thing: I am not sure how much longer I could continue writing altogether publicly, in the face of Donald Trump. I was reading Arthur Koestler's The Sleepwalkers last night, and his insistence that Greek science committed Platonic suicide as a way of dealing with an insupportable political mess was hideously convincing. Regular readers must know how I feel about Plato, but Koestler quite leaves me in the dust, he is so appalled by the desperate, soul-crushing mind-shift that was engineered by the Academy. Thanks to Aristarchus of Samos, heliocentric theory was on the verge of adoption; the measurements were astonishingly close, given the lack of telescopes and whatnot. But the educated public slipped the other way, favoring an unchanging universe moving in uniform circular motion around a degenerate, mutable earth, for which the only hope was a strong aristocracy. Two thousand years later, or nearly, that world-view would be effortfully overturned. But now the liberal democracies that grew up with what we call modern science seem as disordered as the ancient Greeks, and here is Donald Trump in the big ring. I need to do at least some writing about which I am not forced to consider how it will sound in a circus.
Friday 22nd
The second day of work on the new project was rather harder than the first, but not as hard as I feared it might be. I was afraid because yesterday's work, like most good beginnings, was somewhat visionary, and written in a state of exaltation. Today, I had to pay a great deal of attention to small details of construction and pace, and I felt that I was continuing according to the principles that guided me yesterday. I won't know until there's more whether I have succeeded in managing the tonal complex that makes a long piece of writing coherent. I met my quota within a reasonable time, and ended with a thought to be taken up when I resume. The regular reader would have found more than a few familiar items, but I didn't have to care about that.
At lunch, I was reduced to reading Vanity Fair — a sweet but nothing piece about the Umpteenth Marmaduke of Shaftesbury that wouldn't have seen the light of day had it not been for his father's lurid murder some years ago — because two rather educated boors were having a political discussion from opposite ends of the bar. One of them was a Republican who went to Yale with Scooter Libby — I was stunned; that's my vintage: it's amazing how youthful voices remain almost to the end — while the other was sympathetic but more of an Independent. I believe that the topic for most of the conversation was FBI Director James Comey's role in an alleged fix to exonerate Hillary Clinton, legally if not otherwise. But then the talk turned to Obamacare, and there was a dispute about the quality of American medical care. One guy argued that everybody able to afford it comes to America for treatment. The other insisted that Americans are going elsewhere for treatment.
I was tempted to put in my two cents. The United States is a paradise of specialists, while other countries are doing a better job at managing routine procedures. This makes sense: our country has become the land of stars, where celebrity standouts attract global attention. It has given up on competition, in favor of a never-ending pursuit of leverage. If you can bring this product to market before anybody else, or add that killer-app feature, or win the lottery, or get born with the fine-motor skills of a neurosurgeon, or write a book that, while soporfically dull from any literary standpoint, ignites a fashionable allure for debasement in millions of bosoms, if you dare to behave like Donald Trump; in short, if you do that one thing, then you win the jackpot. You suck up the air that any competitors could breathe: there is only you. I'm not saying that these are the thoughts of working Americans. But I think I've caught the American Dream 2.0. It is libertarian and antisocial. Pull up the ladder behind you! I should be very upset if I believed that most Americans shared this dream; most people don't dream Dreams. But it's pretty lousy.
As for the medical alternative, there's good money to be made by suppliers and saved by consumers in an industrial approach to common woes. My favorite is the Shouldice Hernia Centre in Ontario. Could anything possibly be less glamorous? I've read that the clinic's recidivism rate is very low: almost all hernias remain repaired. There are specialized American hospitals, of course. For my Remicade infusions, I visit the infusion unit at an institution that began as the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled. But really, what has rheumatology got to do with that?
The two guys arguing at the bar were educated and articulate, but they were still talking too loudly, interrupting one another, and in general sounding like Fox News. What will become of Fox News, now that Roger Ailes has been deposed?
That's not the real question, of course. The real question is whether opportunistic jingoism will find an equally gifted manipulator. If I were Dante, I'd make room at the bottom for Roger Ailes, right alongside Dick Cheney. This pair of Foo dogs did more to disturb the tenor of American politics than, well, anyone else, ever. They may not have been the worst at heart, but they rode the dragon of television on their apolcalyptic adventures, and were therefore more effectively destructive than mere mortals had ever been. Both perfected the manly art of shouting down while refusing to listen. Cheney was so good at it that he hardly raised his voice. Ailes was even better, though, because we never even heard him. He had an army of proxies.
If you shout "Fire!" in a theatre, are individuals in the audience to be forgiven for their participation in a deadly stampede? I pose this extreme question to underline the difference between panic in a theatre and the response of viewers sitting at home. Or between the involuntary audience hearing the malefactor's cry and the voluntary audience listening to the entertainer's cry night after night. There is a lack of connection between the urgency of the message and the prevailing civil calm. Roger Ailes, according to James Poniewozik (writing in today's Times), operated on the principal that "an aggrieved group needed constant grievance, even in victory." Surely the audience must take some responsibility for this addiction.
Surely we must begin to recognize, and treat, this addiction.
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Study the ancient world in the heart of London, and develop your literary critical skills. Combine Classics with English literature, gaining skills and experience in Latin and/or Ancient Greek language and texts, philosophy, history, art and archaeology, while discovering how Greek and Roman writers have influenced western literature.
One of the very best classics departments in the country, renowned for its quality of teaching, student experience and cutting-edge research.
King's Classics is the third largest in the UK, with unique coverage from the Bronze Age to Modern Greece.
Central location offers collaborations with the British Museum and the Museum of London, which are incorporated into undergraduate teaching.
Degree programmes combine focus and flexibility, allowing students to pursue their interests.
Graduates are equipped with analytical and presentational skills valued by employers, leading to careers in heritage-related professions, the media, education, civil service and the performing arts.
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Personal attention given to each student, creating a vibrant intellectual atmosphere and a network of support.
Offers a wide range of modules and diverse approaches.
Central location offers access to Shakespeare's Globe, and countless other sites and buildings with literary associations.
Graduates develop transferable analytical and communications skills, making them highly desirable to employers across a range of sectors.
UCAS code Q8Q3
Duration Three years
Study mode Full-time
Course type Major/minor honours
Awarding institution King's College London
Faculty Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department Department of Classics
Required grades:
English Literature (or English language and literature)
Classical Civilisation, Ancient History or History preferred
Visit our admissions webpages to view our English language entry requirements.
General Studies and Critical Thinking - College policy: Please note that AS/A level General Studies and Critical Thinking are not accepted by King's as one of your A or AS levels. However, if offered the grade achieved may be taken into account when considering whether or not to accept a candidate who has just fallen short of the conditions of their offer
A-levels: AAB including English Literature (or English Language and Literature) at grade A.
Access to HE Diploma: Access to HE Diploma (for example, in Humanities) with 45 Level 3 credits: 33 must be from units awarded at Distinction, with the remaining Level 3 credits at Merit. Distinction required in Level 3 study of English Literature/English Language & Literature. Preferred subjects at Level 3: Classical Civilisation, Ancient History or History.
Cambridge Pre-U: Three Pre-U Principal subjects at D3 D3 M2 including English Literature/English Language & Literature at D3.Preferred subjects: Classical Civilisation, Ancient History or History.. Combinations of Pre-U principal subjects and other qualifications (such as A-levels) considered
BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma (QCF from 2010): DDM with eleven Distinctions and two A levels at grades AB or DDM with ten Distinctions and two A levels at grades AA, including English Literature/English Language & Literature at grade A. Preferred subjects: Classical Civilisation, Ancient History or History.
BTEC Level 3 Diploma (QCF from 2010): DM with six Distinctions and two A levels at grades AB or DM with four Distinctions and two A levels at grades AA, including English Literature/English Language & Literature at grade A. Preferred subjects: Classical Civilisation, Ancient History or History.
BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma (QCF from 2010): D with four modules at Distinction and two A levels at grades AB or M and two A levels at grades AA, including English Literature/English Language & Literature at grade A. Preferred subjects: Classical Civilisation, Ancient History or History.
Scottish Highers & Advanced Highers: AB in Advanced Highers including English Literature/English Language & Literature at grade A, in addition to AAABB in 5 Highers. Preferred subjects: Classical Civilisation, Ancient History or History.
International Baccalaureate: Pass the IB Diploma with a total of at least 35 points, with three Higher Level subjects at 665 including English Literature/English Language & Literature at grade HL 6.Preferred subjects: Classical Civilisation, Ancient History or History. Note the total point score of 35 includes TOK/EE.
Application: Once an application has been submitted to UCAS, forms are sent to the Department for assessment. Members of staff then consider how far the applicant has shown evidence of the qualities of mind we most value in potential Classics, Classical Studies, Ancient History or Classical Archaeology students, and of aptitude for linguistic study. UCAS forms are also assessed on the basis of the information they contain concerning the applicant's actual or predicted performance at A-level and GCSE (or their equivalents), the personal statement, and the references provided.
Application deadline: January 15th 2017
Decision: In most cases, a decision will be reached, and the offer of a place made, on this basis. But where we feel that there are matters that need further discussion, an applicant will be invited to come to the Department for an interview. This may be because we feel we need more information about the applicant's previous academic experience, or because we want to make sure that the degree applied for really is what the applicant is looking for. A decision will then be made on the strength of the combination of the interview and the UCAS form.
Open Days: Applicants who are offered places on the basis of the UCAS form alone will also receive an invitation to a Department Open Day. The Open Day programme includes a welcome and description of the Department from the Admissions Tutor, a short sample 'lecture' from another member of staff, tours of the Strand Campus and Maughan Library, and the chance to talk to some current students and other members of the teaching staff. There will also be a complementary programme for accompanying parents.
35 points overall with three Higher Level subjects at 665
45 Level 3 credits: 33 must be from units awarded at Distinction, with the remaining Level 3 credits at Merit
Further information below
80% overall
Our Classical Studies with English degree programme allows students to study the ancient world in the heart of London, whilst developing literary critical skills. Three-quarters of your modules are taken in the Department of Classics which allows students to gain skills and experience in Latin and Ancient Greek language and texts, philosophy, history, art and archaeology. The remaining modules are taken in the Department of English and this combination of subjects enables students to see echoes of the ancient world as they are picked up, reinvented and transformed over the centuries through to the modern day.
Teaching in the Department of Classics takes a wide variety of forms, including language-classes, large-group lectures, seminars, and individual supervisions. The particular mix will depend in part on your year of study and in part on the combination of modules you choose. A number of modules involve museum and gallery visits, field trips, and the use of study collections; a growing number have their own web resources and e-discussion groups. Seminar presentations and discussion are important in the first- and second-year modules. One-to-one supervision is a special feature of the third-year dissertation. This range of teaching will equip you with the transferable skills of analysis and presentation that employers value.
Our degree programmes combine focus and flexibility. In each programme you take a set number of modules directly related to the programme subject and then choose from a wide selection of optional modules. A generous allowance of free choice means that you can explore much more widely all aspects of the cultures of Greece and Rome. Assessment is typically by a combination of coursework, oral examinations and examinations.
London is a superb place to study and experience the Greek and Roman worlds, and all the major resources are within easy reach (and often walking distance) from the centrally located Department of Classics at King's. The British Museum houses one of the world's premier collections of not only Greek and Roman but also Egyptian and Mesopotamian archaeology and art, and is supplemented in this by the Soane Museum, the Museum of London, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. We collaborate closely with the British Museum in our undergraduate teaching.
The major London galleries are full of classically-themed work, just as central London is full of Neoclassical, Greek revival and other classically-inspired buildings. Classical and classically-inspired drama can be experienced first-hand more richly and more frequently in London theatres than anywhere else in the world.
For libraries, normal student needs are served by King's Maughan Library and Information Services Centre, as well as the University of London (Senate House) Library; for the investigation of special topics, there are the world-class research collections of the Institute of Classical Studies and the Warburg Institute.
Greek Play
The King's Greek Play has been an annual tradition since 1953 and it is the only production in the country to be performed every year in the original Greek. Students (with all levels of Greek) participate in the direction, production and performance of the play, bringing to the stage playwrights from Aeschylus to Aristophanes.
Rumble Fund
In 2013 the Department of Classics created the Rumble Fund following a generous donation by a former student. This fund is used each year to pay for a group of students to visit classical lands as part of their degree programme.
Classics Society
Students run the Classics Society, which publishes the Satyrica newsletter and organizes regular lectures, theatre outings, themed parties, private tours around museums, nights out and trips abroad – in recent years, group expeditions have been made to Italy and Turkey.
Iris Project
The department also promotes teaching Latin in disadvantaged primary schools through the Iris Project; this offers students a highly unusual experience that is both enriching and will impress future employers.
Study abroad It is easier now than ever before to spend part of your time as a King's student studying abroad. Second year students have the opportunity to study abroad in the second semester of their second year or for the whole of their second year. Partner universities currently include:
Find out more about studying abroad
King's reviews its optional modules on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that any particular optional module will run in a given year and the options listed below are subject to change.
First year students take 90 credits of Classics modules (of which 30 credits may be language acquisition modules) and 30 credits of English modules.
There are no core/compulsory modules in Year 1.
Classical Studies
Students choose 90 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:
Latin and/or Greek Language
Greek & Latin Literature: An Introduction
Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
Receptions of the past: the Hellenic world from antiquity to today
Students may also choose up to 15 credits in optional module(s) from either the Department of War Studies or the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
Student choose 30 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:
Classical & Biblical Contexts of English Literature
Writing London
View full descriptions of Classical Studies modules and English modules
Second year students take 90 credits of Classics modules and 30 credits of English modules.
There are no core/compulsory modules in Year 2.
Myth and literature: ancient stories, modern meanings
Ancient Sexuality
Students may also choose up to 30 credits in optional module(s) from either the Department of War Studies or the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
Comedy and Revolution
First World War Literature
Shakespeare in London
Theatre Capital
Final year students take 90 credits of Classics modules and 30 credits of English modules.
There are no core/compulsory Classics modules in Year 3.
Students are required to take 90 credits from a wide range of modules, which may typically include:
Streetwise: narrating the city in classical literature
Neronian Literature and Culture
Living for ever: fame and glory from Homeric heroes to Roman emperors (and beyond)
An Introduction to Classical Reception Studies in Sixteen Encounters
Students may also choose to research and write a dissertation on a classical subject worth 30 credits, which will count towards these 90 credits.
In addition, students may also choose up to 30 credits in optional module(s) from either the Department of War Studies or the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
Students are required to take 30 credits from a wide range of modules, which may typically include:
Shakespeare's London
Virginia Woolf
Ancient Lyric & English Poetry
Beowulf: Heroes & Other Monsters
James Joyce & Ulysses
A King's Classics degree will equip you with the transferable skills of research, analysis, presentation and critical thinking that are valued by future employers. Our alumni enter a wide range of professions, including law, banking, the civil service, information technology, librarianship, education, heritage industries, the media, journalism and the performing arts. A significant proportion proceed into higher professional or academic qualifications, often pursuing postgraduate degrees at King's.
Recent graduates of the department have found employment as• Assistant Tax Advisor, Ernst & Young• Human Resources Administrator, Health resources International• Web Administrator, Intrico Products Ltd• Illustrator, Self Employed Illustrator• Marketing and Publishing Graduate scheme, the telegraph Media group• Research Intern, Environment Agency• Sales Operations Admin, Associated Press TV news• Latin Teacher at a university• Client Relations Associate, Fidelity Investment Managers• Customer Management Executive, CMC Markets• Senior Course Support Assistant, Coventry University
"I chose King's because of its high reputation and outstanding teaching record; classical languages are compulsory and this adds a greater drive to the teaching of them. The Classics Department achieved 97% student satisfaction last year and it is easy to see why!"
Undergraduate study
Professor Jan Palmowski, from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and Professor Charlotte Roueché, Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies explain the unique opportunities King's can offer students studying Classics and Byzantine & Modern Greek.
Full time tuition fees - Home/EU
£9,000 p.a. (2016/17)*
Full time tuition fees - Overseas
£16,250 p.a. (2016/17)**
For further undergraduate funding information, please visit our fees and funding webpages.
*This tuition fee may be subject to annual increases.
**This tuition fee is subject to annual increases.
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The Volkswagen Group has outlined its global strategy for the launch of vehicles with alternative powertrains. The Group's Commissioner for Electric Drive Systems, Dr. Rudolf Krebs, said at a sustainability workshop at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Wednesday, "We are going to electrify all segments. In plants equipped with our standardized assembly kits and modules, we are able to produce cars on the same assembly line, bumper-to-bumper, with conventional, electrified, and CNG powertrains. This flexible strategy enables us to react fast and cost-efficiently to actual demand and thus reduces risks."
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The "Think Blue." sustainability strategy differs from similar projects in its holistic approach: It reaches beyond products and technologies, is inspiring and motivating for both customers and the interested public to participate in, and encompasses multi-faceted collaborative projects with a broad range of environmental organizations. Volkswagen, as an automaker, puts the focus on innovative, environmentally friendly products and engineering, officials said.
Lars Menge, general manager of Product Strategy, Volkswagen of America, pointed out that Volkswagen has expanded its diesel leadership position in the U.S. market, selling 72 percent of all light-duty diesel vehicles in 2013. Currently, the TDI Clean Diesel installation rate is above 22 percent—an all-time high. Volkswagen now offers seven Clean Diesel models, more than any other brand, and six of those have an EPA estimated highway fuel economy rating of 40 mpg or better. In 2014, Volkswagen will launch the latest high-performing TDI Clean Diesel engine generation, codenamed EA288. Menge also announced that Volkswagen of America will add Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles to its lineup in the near future.
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April 11 Chipmaker Avago Technologies Ltd said it will buy optical chip and component maker CyOptics Inc for about $400 million in cash.
CyOptics had filed for an IPO in August 2011 but withdrew its plans in May 2012.
The Breinigsville, Pennsylvania-based company, which makes indium phosphide-based lasers and photo-detectors, had net sales of about $210 million last year.
CyOptics, whose components are used in optical transceivers, transponders and line cards, counts Ciena Corp, Finisar Corp, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and Lockheed Martin Corp as customers, according to its 2011 IPO filing.
Avago, which serves Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, Samsung Electronics Co, HP Co and Cisco Systems Inc, will fund the transaction with cash on hand and expects to close the deal during its quarter ending July.
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