A man walks into a Barnes and Noble. No this isn't the beginning of a joke. Well...maybe. You decide.
After wandering around for a bit I'm approached by a helpful employee. "Where's the Classics section?" I ask her.
"Classics?" she asks. She honestly doesn't know. I'm dumbfounded by this; how can you work in a store selling literature and not know what is meant by that term?
"Plutarch" I tell her, by way of clarifying.
"You mean like philosophy?" she asks me. No, I say, more like...Classics. You know. Ancient Greek stuff.
She deposits me in the Mythology section and says, "the Philosophy section is over there, if you're looking for, like, Pluto."
PLUTO???!!!!
(If I hadn't been so blown away by this, I would have said: "Yeah, Pluto, like, you know, the illegitimate offspring of Plato and Plutarch, because, like, the Greeks were gay like that and shit. Thanks so much for your help.")
Posted by Alan at March 5, 2006 08:44 PM