This one from frequent contributor (and boyfriend of "blog" editor), Jim. I'm guessing you don't have to be quiet as long as you are loudly referencing a pretentious theorist in your relevant discipline. At least, that's how I think Deleuze would see it.
a housekeeping note: posts will be even more sporadic than usual this week, as I will be traveling. I'll do my best.
I’d be tempted to yell “Quiet Please” every time I pass by that sign, just so the poor sign has someone to quote.
ReplyDeleteHey, that sign is yelling in a library. Not cool, sign!
ReplyDeleteHoly crap, shouldn't the library know better? I take it they don't have a copy of Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
ReplyDeleteMaybe "Quiet Please" is their slogan. If so, it's a pretty mean one.
ReplyDeleteWow, I kinda laughed inside...
ReplyDeleteI think the Derridean-Deleuzean dynamic of language as play and self-realisation comes into the question here. We must learn to read these "mis-used" quotation marks as post-ironic zeugma in a frictive relationship with modern society as a construct of order and language.
ReplyDeleteAny chance that this is the words-of-Jesus-red-letter version of this sign?
ReplyDeleteA great show of eloquence in a library that they now only mis-use quotation marks but have to use two colors to emphasize the copula! Maybe they are actually intelligent and simply don't expect much from their patrons? Love your blog. Keep it up! "A"
ReplyDeleteI work in a library. It is never, ever quiet except when it is closed. Neither is any library in this district. The only time I even attempt to enforce quietness is when someone is actively shouting.
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