Happy Birthday to Gypsy Scholar!

This blog Gypsy Scholar, I mean.

Actually ... I forgot the Gypsy's birthday, which passed by unheralded on February 27th. One year ago on that day appeared the Gypsy's first blog entry -- some nonsense on Jack Deride.

In honor of that moment, I quote literary critic Elizabeta Šeleva, one of the "Independent Writers of Macedonia," who in her "Love and Alchemy: Towards Dionysusian Propagation of the Theory of Literature" (Blesok no. 07, February-March, 1999) says this about the great Jack Deride:

If Ludvig Wintenstein Solomonianly says that "One should not speak about what should be kept unuttered", nowadays Jack Deride "does just what he says"(Gregory Ulmer, 1983) with his essays, enabling them the supremacy, priority of typically erotic (Tantric) techniques of the break, interruptedness and lingering, the collage and montage.

Šeleva cites Gregory Ulmer's "The Object of Post-Criticism," from Anti-Aesthetic (1983), edited by Hal Foster. Ulmer and Foster, unlike Wintenstein and Deride, are two people who really do exist.

Elizabeta Šeleva exists, too. That's her up in the righthand corner. And she seems to have a sense of humor.

Gypsy Scholar, sadly, does not exist. He is merely one of Alexius Meinong's "nonexistent objects"...