Last week Adherents Ondi and Davi asked about the status of the Cease and Desist Order (or, as Dirk calls it, the Cheese and Desist Order) that we received from the Sartre Society on January 25th. I have ignored it. If someone else did that I would think it was a bonehead move and I would mock them.
Yesterday’s mail brought a Cease and Desist Letter, once again from the Sartre Society, but the signees are different than those on the C & D Order. The Society sounds poorly organized. They may even have some loser in the group handing out Nicorette gum.
The Letter is much more friendly than the Order, saying, in essence, Please Stop This. It’s even signed “Very Truly Yours”--but it’s still a snotty legal thingy. The complaint is the same: the Sartre Society says that it has the corner on the Being & Nothingness Cam and we have to stop. Ondi and Davi assured me that one can’t hold a copyright on a title, but there might be a slap fight coming—or, more likely, a leisurely discussion over latte’s--- regarding concrete action taken in setting up cameras and web sites, etc.. I’ve decided to not worry. I doubt that their hallmark is rapid, superhero-like action.
I did some research on the Sartre Society and found that someone is organized enough to have put together a calendar of events. This Sunday they are booked as the intermission entertainment for a monster truck rally. A Society member will sit on a folding chair placed on top of one of those big old dirt mounds, ask for quiet, and then read a passage from Sartre’s novel, “Nausea,” which refers to the disgusting taste of existence and not the beer and hot dog combo at the concession stand.
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