Travis told me that in New York he saw an advertisement for a Freelancers Union. The concept reminded me of the editors’ game in Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, one of my favorite books, in which they try to invent course topics for their fanciful School of Comparative Irrelevance.
Clearly, “Freelancers Union” belongs in the Department of Adynata (i.e., empirical impossibilities) ? along with Urban Planning for Gypsies, Morse Syntax, History of Antarctic Agriculture, Montessori Grading, and others.
Potio-section, or the art of slicing soup, belongs in the Tetrapyloctomy Dept.; that is, the department of useless techniques, named after the art of splitting a hair four ways.
