The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense is coming soon! It's coming soon! Ophelia points out that the cartoon representation on its cover is not a rep of yer actual authors; it refers, rather, to 'people who talk the kind of bollocks the Dictionary is full of'. I was wondering whether one might deconstruct the notion that the cartoon represents or refers to anybody at all. When I say I was wondering this, I don't mean I actually embarked on such a deconstruction myself - heavens, no. Had I done so, I might have thought: maybe the cartoon is just a playful play on spontaneously playful playfulness and there's no referent beyond it for it to be about. But I didn't embark, and so I didn't think. Perish the idea of my thinking it, and the idea of that idea. Perish the perishness even. I thought, instead: you can't eat the meaning of cake, and you can't shake hands with the concept of Richard Rorty while not eating it.
Aaaanyway... Ophelia invites suggestions for the names of the two readers portrayed in the cartoon. These are my suggestions:
Prof Ursula LeTofu Thinberry
Dr Doug D. Void