David K. Israel
Found Objects
by David K. Israel - January 24, 2007 - 8:33 AM

It’s been a very long time since I dropped some objects in the blog. You guys seemed to enjoy them, so I thought it high time for a revival. If you’ve missed our past installments, the idea of Found Objects is pretty simple: I post some sort of visual representation of an object, equation, theory or idea that inspired or made its way into a book, film, song, poem, or painting. Your job is to name it and tell us where it’s found.

This humorous one comes from a pretty well known book: (And remember: no Googling or Internet searching of any kind!)

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Comments (11)

  1. Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

    posted by Kate on 1-24-2007 at 8:46 am

  2. Red Swingline STAPLER from the Milton cartoons by Mike Judge.

    posted by kathleen on 1-24-2007 at 9:06 am

  3. “Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” Great book – I’m a sucker for stories about themselves.

    posted by Devin Henkel on 1-24-2007 at 9:11 am

  4. A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius–Introduction I believe

    posted by Gerry on 1-24-2007 at 9:18 am

  5. Kate takes it first! Mazel tov! Oh, and funny Kathleen, wrong, but very funny reference!

    posted by David on 1-24-2007 at 9:52 am

  6. Though not humorous the first thing that came to mind was “For a Foggy Night” by Larry Niven. OK, no cigar?
    TANJ. (From Larry Niven …. There ain’t no justice.)

    posted by fred on 1-24-2007 at 10:02 am

  7. As soon as I saw that I immediately got “Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler…” stuck in my head.

    posted by Milica on 1-24-2007 at 10:38 am

  8. I knew immediately that it was A Hearbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, as I use that quote often. Sometimes, if I can’t think of what to say, I draw a stapler and hand it to someone and say, “Here’s a drawing of a stapler.”

    posted by Abi on 1-24-2007 at 3:49 pm

  9. Congrats Fred!
    I remembered the Niven story about the guy who goes to an alternate world, and invents the stapler. But I could not recall the name of the story. Thanks. You are a wise person of culture!

    posted by Pierre on 1-24-2007 at 11:19 pm

  10. Uhhhhh. Visual representation of an object? Looks like it’s a stapler. And it was in a book? Prolly in a book about staplers. What do I win?

    posted by Amanda on 1-25-2007 at 3:49 pm

  11. Office Space.

    posted by Peace Corps Volunteer on 1-26-2007 at 6:06 am

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