August 30, 2006 - Requisite

requisite \REK-wuh-zit\, adjective:

1. Required by the nature of things or by circumstances; indispensable.
2. That which is required or necessary; something indispensable.


Those with the requisite talents made drawings and watercolors of the birds, the flowers, the untouched landscapes that unfolded before them.
-- Barbara Crossette, The Great Hill Stations of Asia

In this way, 2,156 buildings were laboriously hoisted, a quarter of an inch at a turn, until they reached the requisite height and new foundations could be built beneath them.
-- Cornelia Dean, Against the Tide

Rather than seeing mindfulness as a kind of talent, like artistic flair or musicality, he believes that everyone willing to make the requisite effort can attain it.
-- Winifred Gallagher, Working on God

Patience and an enquiring mind are absolute requisites for tracing family histories.
-- Mike Anderiesz, "Working the web: Genealogy", The Guardian, January 17, 2002

Requisite derives from Latin requisitus, past participle of requirere, "to require."

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Today's search is apparently about artistic pretension. The first one is real pretension, please follow the link and read the neo-post-modern bullshit ("emergent state," "four track aesthetic") that accompanies his *ahem* art piece. The poor tree.



This guy, on the other hand, packs even more BS into his description, in 1/5th the space, except I think he's fully aware of his bullshit. In that context, this is a fun little riff on "modern art." By the way, don't ask for the Stroganoff recipe, it doesn't taste as good as it sounds.



Link here.