Today on the Metro, there were a bunch of people all carrying boxed sets of the works of Edward Tufte with handles on top.
It was like a Magritte painting — dozens of people all carrying identical little white briefcases.
Today’s moment of surreality
April 8, 2009 by
Ha!
A friend of mine took the train from DC to Boston to go to the Tufte seminar (at which he received the complete works…). I wonder if he was one of the people you saw?
(Yes, I know, probably not, but still!)
The Metro really was full of people sporting their little white briefcase-boxes. It made me wonder what the seminar itself looked like, with EVERYBODY carrying them around.
Ack. I went to a Tufte talk several years ago. I love his books but that seminar? Woohoo—ego overdrive, baby.