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Show 'Lorraine Nelson' A Biography " 110 they most powerfully reveal the topography of the unconscious. Perhaps it is also these associations which strike us as most distasteful in pun. Of course, word play's carky entourage doesn't dissuade everyone from their frequent use (or anyone from their occasional employment). Slogan-smiths regularly parlay puns into paychecks, banking on the ease with which most puns are memorized, paronomasia equaling phonic mnemonic. The NRA (not typically thought of as punsters) submit the ludic turn, "when guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns." Bumper sticker politics. I prefer Marx's puns; "The weapon of criticism cannot replace the criticism of weapons." Guns for puns. The laughed-wing. "Slogan" comes from the Celtic slaugh and gheun, "battle" and "cry" respectively. I may be a bleeding heart, but a republican is a plebian cur. There's a runt in every turn. There's only so much you can cram onto a Post-it note. Though you can fix a few of them together-tack them end-to-end-you run the risk of losing parts. And what can be written on each note is strictly limited by the medium; the standard note is a mere three inches square. I'm not sure that most of my coworkers at DDS could string more than four words together anyhow-but that's not the point (and I don't mean to say they were illiterate-some were even articulate; they just weren't writers). In business, where the emphasis is on brevity, accuracy, transparency, the size of the standard Post-it note rarely creates problems. But when I started pilfering boxes of them from the office supply closet and using them to sketch out this essay- arranging them in clumps on the filing-cabinet in my cubicle-I found the small size created formal difficulties. In 2006, Michael Gaurkee, a seventeen-year-old Senior at Southwest High in Minnesota, created a stop-action film using seven-hundred sixty-seven canary yellow Post-it notes, taking up |
