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This one is pissing me off because there’s cheese in it. I’m not sure there’s a period of Chinese dynastic history wherein the type of dudes likely to be having rap battles would also have been familiar with hard cheese. There’d be political fucking implications to that. Fermented dairy products were often seen as uncivilized foods, and were associated in particular with northern “barbarian” cuisine (see: <lactose intolerance in Eurasia>), whereas competitive poetry was viewed as a civilized and scholarly pastime appropriate to civil servants and courtiers. Mentioning cheese in a verse which also references the heavens could be seen as an effort to legitimize the presence of these dangerous foreign elements within Chinese society, and, thus, as seditious. If dairy were to become a common theme in rap battles, it might be viewed as a dangerous sign of poor morale and defeatist thinking among the literati. “Emperor, we have got to move the capital to the south. The scholars are rapping about cheese. It’s all falling apart.”
Now this is a fucking post
Back to the original topic, 相鼠 "Consider the Rat" from the 詩經 Shijing is an absolutely lethal diss track:
相鼠有皮、人而無儀。 人而無儀、不死何為? Even a rat has skin and fur -- and yet some people have no decency. To be a person with no decency -- Why not just die? 相鼠有齒、人而無止。 人而無止、不死何俟? Even a rat has teeth in its gob -- and yet some people have no shame. To be a person with no shame -- What's keeping you from dying? 相鼠有體、人而無禮。 人而無禮、胡不遄死? Even a rat has a body -- and yet some people have no manners. To be a person with no manners -- Why won't you hurry up and die?
once again, the southern accent is the only valid one
Southern Beatrice is now the only valid Beatrice
A different Southern accent, but Danielle Brooks is terrific as Beatrice in the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park version of “Much Ado About Nothing” — the first time I’d ever seen Beatrice being funny, rather than wry. Trailer below, link to full version above. It’s great.
Initial thoughts on 'Babel'
I guess one good thing about Twitter collapsing is that at least now there's no danger of anybody finding anything you write. I finished R.F. Kuang's Babel yesterday, and would love to talk about it with other people who have read it. Tumblr is a lot less susceptible to context collapse and also nobody's here, so there's probably less risk of pile-ons and unnecessary bad feelings.
I wrote up some initial impressions of Babel as a sort of hypertrophied tweet thread -- initially posted on my alt, then edited a bit when my mom e-mailed to ask about Babel after seeing it mentioned somewhere, then edited a bit more. Throwing these out as discussion points, in case there's anyone still using Tumblr, rather than as conclusions: I may be wrong, am probably missing things, and have been in a generally fucked-up headspace lately so I could be getting all of this completely backwards. The tl;dr is that there's a lot to like in Babel, but the author is capable of doing a lot more, and there are places where it feels as if she was butting up hard against the limits of what can be done with YA.
good news for everyone who's still in a phd program
“Stove’s haunted.”
“What?”
(loading pistol) “Stove’s haunted.”