Poetics as Conjecture and Provocation

摘要

I do remember, when I was a barber, the boss, after having shorn the heads of some particularly long-haired customers, used to say to them: 'Now you look like a gentleman, sir.' To which, once, one of them said: 'And what did I look like before?' 'Before?' the boss said, 'before you looked like a professor, sir.' 'But I am a professor,' the man said.