Throwing things out of anger is never a smart move, but it can also lead to more serious consequences.Especially when youre at an airport and what youre.Museum Normanianum, Or A Catalogue Of The Invertebrata Of Europe, And The Arctic And North Atlantic Oceans., Alfred Merle Norman.Reviews Elena FerranteWe cant stop talking about Elena Ferrante we said to each other throughout 2.Neapolitan novels upon friends and relatives. Fifa 15 Crack Only 3Dm V3 Fixed Gear . This collection of essays on Ferrante emerges from a conference panel at the Modern Language Association convention in Philadelphia in January, 2.Prose Fiction Division.The pseudonymous Italian writer, who chooses not to reveal herself beyond her writing, had come to new popularity in the US in the past few years, and we found we had a lot to say about feminism, rage, womens friendships, genre clashes, and bad sex, amongst other topics.We still cant stop talking about Ferrante, and we trust that when you read these lively, provocative essays, you too will join the chorus.Hester Blum, MLA panel moderatorIn a famous formulation, Matthew Arnold described criticism as the best that is known and thought in the world.Arnolds words here imply a sense of progress, publicness, hierarchythat, by bringing ideas to light, we can test and evaluate, mutually agree upon, their bestness.Arnolds articulation remains a useful standard even as much modern criticism has moved beyond or against his broader ideas about whats good or best, criticisms basic structure of evaluative argument still remains central to academic life and exchanges.And yet, this structure, it seems, cannot hold many forms of knowledge.What if a text, a series of novels, say, generates knowledge and experiences that cant be contained within the consensus making world of criticism or that comes to knowledge from a felt sense, hard to describe or explain What if you come to know something about a text that you can only share at great cost, or simply dont want to share What if you know something about a text because of something dark, bad, shameful, or unacceptable, that you know about yourselfIn this essay we assert that Elena Ferrantes Neapolitan novels turn us towards other modes of engagement not the best that might be thought, but, in fact, the pettiest.Part of what we love about the books is that they are about peopleparticularly the critic Lencoming to understandings of the world that they cant put up for evaluation.These are good books about people acting badly, most often in variously petty ways.Reading these novels about bad feeling has made us feel good.But reading evaluative criticism about them has made us feel, strangely, bad.We have found in the case of the Neapolitan novels, that the border between our thinking and feeling became even more vexed and blurry than usual.By thinking in this essay through the good and bad feelings the novels contain, describe, and generate, we hope to come to a clearer understanding of our own sense of the possibilities and limits of criticism, as it applies to these novels, and to our lives as critics, in this fraught present time more generally.Pettiness. What does it mean to call something petty, or to be petty yourself Pettiness has to do with being out of scale.We might understand pettiness as a relation between attention and object of attention you are being petty when a small or seemingly irrelevant detail generates disproportionate irritation you are also being petty when irritation leads you to pay disproportionate attention to a small detail.This petty state is often where we found ourselves in response to much criticism about the Neapolitan novels.Something about it irritated us.Criticism about these novels felt inadequate to the largeness of our feeling and thinking about these novels.The only talk about Ferrante we liked was private, non argumentative.The critical takes, the arguments about authorship, the interpretive discussions placing the novels in various literary contexts and genealogies all of it, bizarrely for people who passionately do critical work for a living, seemed mostly useless and entirely missing of the point.However what was the point we so felt everyone else was missing And why was it all so irritating Part of the problem, of course, is the Neapolitan novels popularity and their ability to generate, basically, a fandom when an object lives in your fanatical heart, it can be irritating to find it discussed, analyzed, praised elsewhere.Stephen Bailey is a comedian, TV personality and writer, whose brand of gossipy humour has made him one of the most soughtafter performers on the UK comedy circuit.It is irritating because it is irritating to discover that your heart is not the only place where that objects truth might be revealed.Another possibility is that the irritation is a historical symptom.The years of Ferrante fever in the United States have coincided with the collapse of things more generallypolitically, psychologically, informationally.We exist in a state now where the ability to demonstrate or assert what is best that is known is under particular stress.Its clear that criticism in our present timethe best that is known, consensual knowledgehas a vital role.And yet the collapse that makes criticism urgent has another side effect too it makes us crabby.And thus a variety of other forms of knowing and interpretinggossip, subtweets, textspeak, side eye, backchannelsstrike us as also, at the present time, particularly useful.These petty modes are insufficient to the role of understanding either literature or our present, and yet they are still, we would claim, necessary.At the very least, as we will show, they are necessary to a fuller understanding of the Neapolitan novels.The novels pettiness is substantive and specific they are an expression of petty feeling all the way down.The question the novels seek to answerwhat happened to Lens friendship with Lilais not a critical question what went wrong is not a matter of reason or clarity.For what would it mean to evaluate a friendship in terms of the best that is known How, in friendship, literature, and politics, do we evaluate whats good, whats interesting, what helps and what hurtsWhat standards guide our judgements, where do the standards come from, and whose power do they support or undercut Len is a critic and a novelist, and yet neither of those modes of writing or evaluation have helped her answer the most urgent questions she has.For Len, criticism is not even an objective mode of evaluation instead, it manifests narratively mostly as a series of bad boyfriends and bad moms, counterweighted for a while, Nancy Meyer ishly, by increasingly nice apartments.In other words, as a life.Backchannels. The Neapolitan novels are about marriage, womens friendship, creative life, and politics.Although Len has built her adult life out of writing in and for publics, the prose we are reading seems deeply private it is the material she cannot share with the world around her.M/MV5BMTU5YmRhYWMtMjZmYy00MDg3LTk3OWEtY2I5ZTFlODUzMzc3XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzM4MjM0Nzg@.jpg' alt='Alice In Wonderland Crack Vitality' title='Alice In Wonderland Crack Vitality' />It is significant that the content of the novelsan exploration of a specific friendship under conditions of poverty and patriarchytakes a form that we might describe as a backchannel between Len and the reader.Backchannels in our contemporary world run the gamut from geopolitical intrigue to bitching with friends Jared Kushner emailing furtively with Russian politicians, but also the more everyday flows of information in secret Facebook groups, DMs, gossipy texts.They are a place where people put knowledge they are not supposed to share express irritation about things that are not supposed to irritate them and indulge hysterics over things that are not supposed to be funny.In backchannels you reveal the aspects of yourselfaspects that feel unlikely to be legitimated by a wider publicto the people you believe are already on your side.Essential to this form, too, is the response it assumes agreement and, crucially, reciprocity.Putting your worst or most outrageous self, your secrets, in a backchannel anticipates that the reader will reflect their illegitimate selves, their secrets, back to you.If we think of the novels as backchannels, we can imagine them as bringing to light the question of what cant be brought to light, and why.The novels are soul baring but in an intimate, secretive, whispering sort of way, and they elicit intimate, secretive conversation in us, their readers.Len is telling us things about herself that she does not want to be known.So what is lost in responding to this voice in the idiom of criticism Because criticisms task is so fully on the side of illumination, publics, consensus, it seems categorically to violate the intimate mode the novels form both takes and encourages us to inhabit.Sword Swallowers Association International SSAI Sword Swallowers Hall of Fame.William Delno Sherman Fritz 1.February 1. 6, 1.Ashley, Luzerne County, Wilkes Barre, PA, one of 1.Martha Stevens Fritz of Hallsetown, Cornwall, England 1.Nathan Delong Fritz 1.William Delno Fritz had a younger brother named Nathan D.Fritz Jr. who was born in Ashley PA 1.Ada Fritz 1. 87. Robert Price in 1.Mrs. Robert Price, mother of sword swallower Edna Price.At the age of 1. 1, lost a leg while hopping a freight train in Wilkes Barre, PA, so he wore a wooden leg and walked with a cane the rest of his life.Delno Fritz claimed to have learned sword swallowing in 1.Fritz also claimed to have studied sword swallowing later in the early 1.Chevalier Cliquot when they both worked at the Wonderland Museum in Scranton, PA Fritz first known performance as a fire eater and sword swallower Sept 6, 1.Harry Davis Eden Musee in Harrisburg, PA Cliquot performed there 9 days later on Sept 1.The two sword swallowers were constantly competing and performing within weeks of each other in performances and medical examinations in competing museums, medical centers and Dime Museums in Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, and eventually England.On January 2. 9, 1.Will Fritz performs with Evaleen as a curious constellation in Wilkes Barre, PA.Fritz must have been playing with variations of his name at this early time in his career.In August and September 1.Delno Fritz was featured as the fire eater at Sultans Retreat in New York.According to an article published on January 1.Harrisburg Telegraph Harrisburg, PA In the curio hall of the Harry Davis Eden Musee, Coffey, the dude skeleton, will hold receptions, as will Delno Fritz, a famous sword swallower.According to an article in the New York Evening World dated August 2.Manager Huber, at the Fourteenth Street Museum, promises for the coming week, Prince Tinymite, the smallest living man on earth the Cranks Convention, Delma Fritz and Maud Churchill, sword swallowers Ida Smith with a den of alligators, and others.According to an article in the NY Times dated Sept.Hubers 1. 4th St.Museum First apprearance here of LEONZO BROTHERS and their famous company of players in the grand local drama, The Dog Spy.A great production, curio halls, HINDOO GIANTS 8 feet tall, PRINCE TINYMITE, 1.MICHAEL Strong Man, Prof.HORN trained birds, DELMO FRITZ and MAUD CHURCHILL, sword swallowers, EMMA BROWN, spotted girl, ROSE CALLAHAN, bearded lady.Another article from the Sept 2, 1.New York Sun reports performing at Hubers 1.St. MuseumDelmo Foutz and Maud Churchill, sword swallowers.While performing together sometime between September and November 1.Delno Fritz married 1.Maud Churchill at the New York City Hall.On November 1. 2, 1.Wilkes Barre Times Leader reported that Prof.Delno Fritz was heading to the Wonderland Musee and Theatre in Philadpelphia, PA with his new wife Maud Churchill to perform there the week of December 3 7, 1.Mr. Fritz intends to retire in the near future, as his feats are injuring his health.In early 1. 89. 5, Fritz suffered a serious injury while performing in Boston, MA.According to the March 3, 1.Philadelphia Times, Delano Fritz, the sword swallower who nearly bled to death in Boston a few weeks ago, has recovered and will be seen for the first time since the accident at the Ninth and Arch Museum in Philadelphia.On May 8, 1. 89. 5, Delno Fritz was featured at Clark Street Dime Museum in Chicago.After working closely or competing with Chevalier Cliquot in Pennsylvania and Chicago, it appears that in September of 1.Fritz decided to begin to market himself as an exotic Frenchman from Paris and take on a title similar to that of Chevalier Cliquot by calling himself Chevalier Fritz.From September 9th 1.Chevalier Fritz, the Parisian Sword Swallower was featured at Austin and Stones Museum in Boston according to articles in the Boston Post.An article dated September 1.Chevalier Fritz swallowed ticking watches and eleven swords at once at Austin and Stones Museum in Boston.On September 2. 8, 1.Chevalier Fritz was featured in the Cincinnati Enquirer dated Septmeber 2.A few weeks later, Chevalier Cliquot was also featured in Boston swallowing fourteen swords at once.On October 1. 3, 1.Delno Fritz was again featured at Ninth and Arch Museum in Philadelphia according to an ad in the Philadelphia Times dated October 1.On November 2. 2, 1.Delno Fritz was featured at Park Street Opera House in Bordentown NJ.In December 1. 89.Delno Fritz was again featured in the curio hall of the Ninth and Arch Museum in Philadelphia, according to an article in the December 1.Philadelphia Times Delno Fritz, who is beyond question, the most daring and versatile of living sword swallowers, will raise a big crop of goose flesh upon everybody with sufficient hardihood to gaze upon his blood curdling performances.Some of the razor edged weapons which Delno Fritz thrusts down his throat are long enough to penetrate several inches beyond the stomach.A startling climax to his act is the firing of a heavily loaded gun, balanced upon a sharp bayonet, which rests in Fritz interior.According to an article in the February 4, 1.Scranton Republican, Maud Fritz, better known locally as Maud Churchill, through her counsel, Mr.Scragg, asked for a divorce from William Fritz.She is an actress and he also connected with the stage.They were married in City Hall, New York in 1.The father and mother of the petitioner allege that on one occasion Fritz and his wife started to quarrel before them and then retreated to another room.They heard her scream, and rushing in, found Fritz choking her.When he was reprimanded, he said he could do as he pleased with her, kill her if he wanted to.The father swore that he heard Maud say in the presence of her husband that she was locked in a room in Boston without food for three days and three nights Sept 9 1.Fritz explained this by saying that he went out with the boys and got drunk, played poker and lost all his money.On March 9, 1. April 1.Scranton Tribune.One month later, on April 1.Maud Churchill was remarried to Conductor Wm.C. Edwards by Rev.L. C. Floyd in Scranton, PA according to an article in the Scranton Republican dated April 1.April 1. 6, 1. 89.Scranton Tribune William C.Edwards and Miss Maude Churchill were united in marriage Tuesday evening April 1.Rev. L. C. Floyd, D.D. presiding elder of the Binghamton district, at her home, 1.Adams avenue. The bride, though only 1.March 9, 1. 89. 6 from William Fritz, an actor, who ill treated and abandoned her, making her condition intolerable and life a burden.Mr. Edwards is a conductor in the employ of the Scranton Traction company, and lived at 5.North Bromley avenue.According to an article dated February 9, 1.New York Times, Delmo Fritz performed at Hubers 1.St. Museum in New York with Eli Bowen the legless wonder.In 1. 89. 6, Delno Fritz was featured as the sword swallower with Barnum and Bailey Circus.On February 7, 1.Boston Post reports about upcoming shows at Austin Stones Museum in Boston, Chevalier Fritz will be an attraction.Chevalier is a sword swallower, not one of the every day sort, but a sword swallower who doesnt stop with one sword, but who actually swallows a dozen at one time.He has been a long time attraction at the London Aquarium where he acquired the name of the human ostrich.Fritz also borrows watches from persons in the audience, and they slip into his stomach as easily as the swords.Patrons of Austin Stones Museum will have the chance to see a man swallow watches this week, for the management has secured for one of its attractions the famous Chevalier Fritz, whose feats at swallowing swords, watches, rapiers, razors, and stilettos have made him a world wide reputation.Chevalier Fritzs watch swallowing got him into serious trouble at the London Aquarium, where he was for a long time one of the leading attractions.It is the chevaliers custom to borrow a watch and chain from someone in the audience when he does the act.On the occasion referred to, he was given a large gold watch, attached to a light chain.The chevalier promptly swallowed the watch, holding onto the end of the light chain until as many as desired had place their ears to his chest and heard the ticking of the watch within.
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