Okay, obviously I found the kinda thin book about the achievements of African-Americans first and then, just as apparent, spent about an hour searching a five story university library for the funniest comparison companion. As I recall, the other finalists was a book about bridges and a compendium of the works of some (relatively) obscure artist. It wasn’t Yves Klein, but it was that sorta ballpark. You know, the kind of guy maybe you know if you took some art classes and fancied yourself as an artist for a couple of winters (as an artist you must adopt several affectations and one of mine was calling years as several of whichever season fit my mood or occasion. This is absolute fiction.) or if you run a gallery. Otherwise, it’s just about impossible to know who he is. Also, if you do know who Yves Klein* is and have a sense of humor outside of art appreciation then the very idea of a book dedicated to his masterpieces is heavy funny stuff indeed.
Okay, assuming that a soup recipe is physically equal to an African-American achievement in font size and page count, then there are about 263 African-American achievements or about 3.8 soups for each achievement. This is merely a calculation of mathematics and not morality. I mean, yeah sure, the library is probably making a comment here but that reflects on their raycess** asses.
*He is most famous for a series of solid blue paintings in specific hue of blue he credits himself as inventing. Whatever the art world version of being baller is, then that situation is totally it.
**This is the more phonetically enjoyable variation of racist. Try it! That dude in the white robes with the cross is totally raycess!
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