Remarks are generally perceived as more clever or literary if they are within a context of some sort. This wide-open audition is way too contrived to be meaningful. If you want to read something I've written in a literary scholarship context (most of you can save your time and not follow this link because it makes a lot more sense if you've read the book) you'll find an essay about The Sharpest Sight posted here. It is a particularly good novel by an American Indian writer; this is the field in which I was working when I wrote my master's thesis. As most authors of just about anything will attest, I would make some revisions if I had the opportunity. But it works.

SRS