{"id":21559,"date":"2022-05-14T19:31:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T18:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=21559"},"modified":"2022-05-14T19:31:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T18:31:42","slug":"weekend-links-621","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/05\/14\/weekend-links-621\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 621"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Holmes’s fog-horn apparatus, 1875.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “Have scientists designed the perfect chocolate?<\/a>” According to Betteridge<\/a>, the answer would have to be “no”, even more so when the scientists only seem to have reinvented the Flake<\/a> which Cadbury have been making since 1920. But the story does tell you something about “edible metamaterials” and even “edible holograms”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “In The Foghorn’s Lament<\/em>, I talk about someone called The Fogmaster, who apparently used to do guerrilla foghorn performances…his ringtones are still available<\/a>.” Jennifer Lucy Allan<\/a> on foghorns past and present.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “The story of Les Rallizes D\u00e9nud\u00e9s is almost that of fan fiction. Fans know some basic details and the rest is conjecture and imagination.” Patrick St. Michel<\/a> explores the occluded history of the Japanese rock band.<\/p>\n

The Wharton completist may recognize some of the raw material for these stories in her earlier works. For instance, she used the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone in a 1912 verse play before finding its subtle final expression in \u201cPomegranate Seed,\u201d in which the ghostly letters keep the New York lawyer figuratively tethered to the underworld. And a 1926 volume of poems contained an experimental riff on a dead woman returning home on All Souls\u2019 Day, published over a decade before Wharton revisited the holiday in her final short story. The ghost story form transforms both these familiar materials and her evergreen themes: Once some donn\u00e9e<\/em> becomes a ghost story, what may have been just an amusing character study acquires a participatory element, since readers must meet her halfway in becoming scared. To do so involves truly contemplating what exactly it is in these texts\u2014and it is never the literal ghosts\u2014that elicits a chill.<\/p>\n

Krithika Varagur<\/a> on Edith Wharton’s ghosts<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Gaspar No\u00e9’s favourite films<\/a>. Elsewhere, No\u00e9 and Dario Argento<\/a> talk about No\u00e9’s latest feature, Vortex<\/em>, while later this month Arrow are giving Enter the Void<\/em><\/a> an overdue UK blu-ray release.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Gay utopia: recent photographic portraits by Matthew Leifheit<\/a> of Fire Island.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Yogaville, 1993: more historic film of Alice Coltrane<\/a> performing.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: The Maysles Brothers<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sugar Chocolate Machine<\/em><\/a> (1967) by The Beatstalkers | Chocolate Machine<\/em><\/a> (1993) by Sandoz | Chocolate Jesus<\/em><\/a> (1999) by Tom Waits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holmes’s fog-horn apparatus, 1875. \u2022 “Have scientists designed the perfect chocolate?” According to Betteridge, the answer would have to be “no”, even more so when the scientists only seem to have reinvented the Flake which Cadbury have been making since 1920. But the story does tell you something about “edible metamaterials” and even “edible holograms”. … Continue reading “Weekend links 621”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Weekend links 621","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,7,5,3,12,15],"tags":[637,414,3109,7811,3507,10535,12223,9501,12224,12222,8363,12226,12221,12225,2425],"class_list":["post-21559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-film","category-gay","category-music","category-photography","category-technology","tag-alice-coltrane","tag-dario-argento","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-edith-wharton","tag-gaspar-noe","tag-jennifer-lucy-allan","tag-krithika-varagur","tag-les-rallizes-denudes","tag-matthew-leifheit","tag-patrick-st-michel","tag-sandoz-musician","tag-the-beatstalkers","tag-the-fogmaster","tag-the-maysles-brothers","tag-tom-waits"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5BJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}