Tim Kreider asked in his essay, “ Power? No, Thanks, I’m Good”: Diogenes replied, “Yes, stand out of my light.” Finding Diogenes lazing in the sun, Alexander expressed his admiration and asked if there was anything Diogenes needed. There are also paintings of the time he dissed Alexander the Great, who had made it a point to visit this famous philosopher. Diogenes’s most notorious act was to roam through the city streets with a latern, looking for an honest man in paintings, he’s often shown with the lantern by his side, sulking inside a round terra-cotta tub while the life of the city goes on around him. Many people are familiar with “the man who lived in a tub,” scorning all material possessions except for a stick and a ragged cloak.
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Jenny Odell writes about Diogenes in the chapter “Anatomy of a Refusal” in her book, How To Do Nothing, examining him alongside performance artists, Thoreau ( Walden is much better if you think of it as performance art), Bartleby the Scrivener, and the comedian Tom Green. Here’s a comic not in the book, from King-Cat #70:
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(I would read a whole series of Porcellino comics based on his favorite philosophers: see his book, Thoreau at Walden.) The cartoonist John Porcellino had the brilliant idea to turn a handful of these punchlines into single-page comics in a section of King-Cat #68, which is collected in his book, From Lone Mountain. On one occasion he saw the son of a courtesan throwing a stone at a crowd, and said to him, “Take care, lest you hit your father.” He was begging once of a very ill-tempered man, and as he said to him, “If you can persuade me, I will give you something.” replied, “If I could persuade you, I would beg you to hang yourself.”
Seeing some women hanging on olive trees, he said, “I wish every tree bore similar fruit.” If you read Diogenes Laertius’s The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, the stories about Diogenes of Sinope start to read like a joke book of one-liners:
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