Word: resartus
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...struck, for the piece in question was striking, frappant even. God and Man at Yale, God and Nude at the Daily! I thought of Carlyle. Shall we sartus, let alone resartus, the sartor? Shall we, while we're about it, clothe the Yale Daily scriptor? Through the turbid sophomoricism of what Mr. Snotbottom is doubtless pleased to call "prose," I seemed to detect an affirmative reply...
...impossible hour, admittedly, but not devoid of its virtues: H.M. Jones is offering what is probably the last year of his epic Hum 133a (Thought and Literature in the Nineteenth Century) which marshals, among others. Pere Goriot, Wuthering Heights, Sartor Resartus, Bleak House, Faust, and The Red and the Black into a tidy and orderly cultural unity. Professor Myron Gilmore, the hour's other virtue, presents three disunited centuries (roughly, 1300-1600) in an even stiffer course, his History 130: "The Age of the Renaissance and Reformation." Devious Machiavelli and the sainted Thomas More top the reading list...
...canebrake confusion of manner can only be deliberate-an esthetic and philosophic ruse to exclude reason from the genetic and historical workings of man's fate. Peter De Vries's brilliant parody takes account of this and gives fair warning to those who attempt to write Sartoris Resartus; it may be easy to fake the Spanish moss but not the tree it grows...
Then, before one can say Sartor Resartus, our hero emerges in all his flanneled splendor. As he steps forth into the bright Saturday morning sunshine, the sun reflecting off his pomaded head and his glistening shoes, it would be hard to believe that he could ever look any other...
...Clothes give us individuality, distinction, social polity; clothes have made Men of us." So wrote Thomas Carlyle in his noted. "Sartor Resartus" of 1836, making his contribution to a literary feud over the importance of attire that has flourished since...