Unlike this guy (HT - Grant McDermott).
Bartleby finds existentialists occassionally quite insightful, but a little excessive and often depressing.
Traditions, Bartleby reminds Henri, are better thought of as things that we imbue with significance, rather than things with intrinsic significance. If you demand intrinsic significance you seem to be missing the whole point. One ought not ask "what is it about Halloween that makes it an enchanting day?". If one feels the need to ask anything (and it's not an obligation to, of course), one ought to ask "what is it about us that leads us to enchant the day of Halloween?".
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
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Ha! Did I just now get the joke? Copy cat?
ReplyDelete(Bartleby as in Bartleby, Scrivener. Scrivener as in copyist.)
No copy cat joke intended. I picked him, so Kate picked his name. Kate picked it because it was one she liked from the movie Dogma. I approved, just because it was a cool name and because of its tie to the story. But no, there wasn't a "copy cat" intent to it, just an appreciation.
Deletebtw - we are very likely to be getting another one in the next couple days.
DeleteI think we have to then stick to two cats or we will not have room for tiny humans, which we'd also like to cook up in the very near future.
"tiny humans, which we'd also like to cook up in the very near future."
ReplyDeleteThe secret is in the stirring.
That's what she said.
Delete(I don't know if that was a sex joke or a baby cannibalism joke... so I'm just throwing that out there).