"Sartre Resorted". Maybe it needs a subtitle or something like that to convey what it would actually be about, but I don't really know what that might be. All I know is that if I were the editor of a journal, I would instantly accept a paper so titled, without so much as a first thought, even if it actually consisted of nothing but a long description of an X-ray of Harry Nilsson's liver.
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What did Sartre resort to?
Posted by: Danthelawyer | June 06, 2006 at 01:10 PM
Are you trolling me? "Resorted" as in "sorted again".
Posted by: ben wolfson | June 06, 2006 at 01:17 PM
Remember, love is only a dream.
Posted by: A White Bear | June 06, 2006 at 01:25 PM
And what about Harry Nilsson's liver anyway? Would it hold the key to some sort of understanding? I remember a review, Rolling Stone I think, that meant to praise his vocals by observing that he had "avoided Mathusland."
Posted by: I don't pay | June 06, 2006 at 01:53 PM
This all hinges on a really big "if."
Posted by: bitchphd | June 06, 2006 at 03:36 PM
Actually, I'd pay for that. Wolfson Quarterly, filled to the brim with cleverly-titled pieces with impeccable diction on completely random and whimsical topics.
Posted by: A White Bear | June 06, 2006 at 04:21 PM
This all hinges on a really big "if."
Well, it wouldn't have to be an exercise in livery ecphrasis. That was just an example.
Posted by: ben wolfson | June 06, 2006 at 04:27 PM
AWB: I wish.
Posted by: ben wolfson | June 06, 2006 at 04:35 PM
Wrong "if." However, AWB is right: you should become the editor of such a journal, immediately.
Posted by: bitchphd | June 06, 2006 at 08:48 PM
Yay, the Wolfson Quarterly zine! Make it so, Ben. Order me up a handful.
Posted by: A White Bear | June 07, 2006 at 05:28 AM
Subtitle: "Carlyle as Proto-Existentialist?"
Posted by: Adam Kotsko | June 07, 2006 at 02:42 PM
I've actually never read Sartor Resartus.
Posted by: ben wolfson | June 07, 2006 at 07:49 PM
Wait a second. You embarrassed me by making me admit I hadn't read it, and failed to mention that you hadn't read it either?
I hate you.
Posted by: bitchphd | June 07, 2006 at 09:06 PM
I mean, how many people have read it? Not many, I'd imagine. Plus, I lied to you about the century of its publication.
Posted by: ben wolfson | June 07, 2006 at 09:53 PM
Great. Why don't you just put a big ol' dunce cap on my head, already, and make me sit in the corner.
Posted by: bitchphd | June 07, 2006 at 09:56 PM
Not trolling. Punning. Apparently unsuccessfully. Sorry.
Posted by: danthelawyer | June 08, 2006 at 09:36 PM