An #obituary for the remarkable Lewis Lapham, creator of the amazing Lapham’s Quarterly:
“On The Remarkable Legacy Of Lewis Lapham” [2024], Literary Hub (https://lithub.com/on-the-remarkable-legacy-of-lewis-lapham/).
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
"A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn’t enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong”
-Lewis H. Lapham, editor and writer (1935-2024)
To what you cited he added a punch line: “The spectacle is nearly always comic.”
The quotation is from 1989!
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From #WordADay
https://www.meco.app/share/eabca8f2-466c-4f69-acf3-39f41b188ac9
History...
The past living in the present
and the present living in the past
‘[Arthur] Schlesinger wrote an essay for the New York Times a few weeks before he died in 2007 at the age of eighty-nine, entitled “Folly’s Antidote.” And that was his idea of history. It’s what saves us, the knowledge and sense of history, what saves us from the delusions of omniscience and omnipotence, from misplaced faith in money and machines. The internet works against historical consciousness because the new and newer news comes so quickly to hand that it buries all thought of what happened yesterday or the day before in an avalanche of data. [...]
The more data we possess, the less we know what it means. Yes, Alexa and Watson can access the Library of Congress, but they can’t read the books.’
- Lewis Lapham (January 8, 1935 – July 23, 2024)
The Art of Editing No. 4
Interviewed by Jim Holt, ‘The Paris Review’
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7423/the-art-of-editing-no-4-lewis-lapham
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Photo by Matthew Septimus, courtesy of Harper's Magazine.It is dangerous to excel at two different things. You run the risk of being underappreciated in one or the other; think of Michelangelo as a poet, of Michael Jordan as a baseball player. This is a trap that Lewis Lapham has largely avoided. Fo...
Lewis Lapham, the American writer and editor who founded Lapham's Quarterly and edited Harper's magazine, died on July 23. Here's the Paris Review's 2019 interview with him, in which they discuss his long journalistic career, which started at the San Francisco Examiner in the 1950s. Here are his thoughts on writing: "It becomes a pleasure after about the fifth, possibly the sixth draft. At that point it begins to be fun because you begin to have an inkling of what you’re trying to say. You never know what you think until you try to set it up in a sentence, maybe fish it into the net of a metaphor. The writing doesn’t get easier, but the work becomes play."
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Photo by Matthew Septimus, courtesy of Harper's Magazine.It is dangerous to excel at two different things. You run the risk of being underappreciated in one or the other; think of Michelangelo as a poet, of Michael Jordan as a baseball player. This is a trap that Lewis Lapham has largely avoided. Fo...
> The camera sees but doesn’t think.
> As the habits of mind beholden to the rule of images come to replace the structures of thought derived from the meaning of words, the constant viewer eliminates the association of cause with effect, learns that nothing necessarily follows from anything else.
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/dancing-stars
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