I don't know, but I rather like Tim Gunn. Maybe he's the only one who can expose it from the inside.

Like I always say, the culture industry has forced art into standard forms. The same thing is happening with fashion. And Tim Gunn is the stick that beats it down into the latest cut and color.

Theodor, please. This isn't about art—it's about work! Tim Gunn is always popping in and watching the contestants work. It's like forced labor. They should call this show The Panopticon of Fashion.

Michel, now you're misreading Project Runway. This isn't about forcing the designers to work. Project Runway is all about clothes, right? And fashion wants to be seen. Otherwise how would you show off your taste (and by taste I mean class status)?

Back up, everyone! Tim Gunn always comes by to say "MAKE IT WORK!"He's unveiling the work behind fashion.

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You would—you just love categorizing things by type of plot, don't you?

The first scene is like every case of love at first sight: she sees him reading and interrupts him in an activity that seems meant to be seen. So staged!

Fragments of culture recycled over and over. Are we in the end times yet?

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I'm marveling over the catalogue of our shared tastes.

By which I mean to say, thanks ☺

Anytime!

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You should write like I do. My book on Racine is well-researched, objective, and clearly written.

Pokes.

How can I even address your argument when your logic is so flawed? No style is transparent. Your version of literary criticism isn't more objective than mine is.

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Actually, Picard, thank you: you've given me an idea. I think I will publish an autobiography: I will call it Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes.

How can I ever be done! But I have read it.

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Sorry I've been MIA. Just had a radiant encounter with semiotics. You want to discuss sometime? Café tomorrow night?

Yeah! Semiology book club!