The Story Of My Life Now.
Tag: Charles M Schulz
Life And Death.
Snoopy is being very profound. In the Indian tradition, the opposite of death is not life but, birth. Life in it is eternal. Such profound philosophical thoughts coming in a cartoon is remarkable
Peanuts!
Synchronicity strikes again. My post Grammar Police reintroduced my sister Padmum to my readers some of whom complimented me on having her in my life. That post elicited a comment from Tammy that she missed seeing her Vlogs. That was followed by Tammy commenting on my post Hope sending me her trademark snoopy hugs after a long time.
All these things happened in just the last few days.
Then, just half an hour ago, I get a message from Padmum taking me to this wonderful article about Peanuts in the BBC.
Long live Peanuts.
Siesta.
I very rarely spend afternoons outside my home as the one thing that I really look forward to every day is my siesta of between an hour and an hour and a half. My reward for many years of not having that luxury during my working years.
I can completely identify with Snoopy.
Without Comment.
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Comics Reflecting Adult Angst.
As the readers of this blog know, I get a regular email feed from delanceyplace.
The mail today is about Charlie Brown, an endearing cartoon character from “Peanuts” by Charles Schulz.
I quote –
“Children are not supposed to be radically dissatisfied. When they are unhappy, children protest–they wail, they whine, they scream, they cry–then they move on. Schulz gave these children lifelong
dissatisfactions, the stuff of which adulthood is made.
“Readers recognized themselves in ‘poor, moon- faced, unloved, misunderstood’ Charlie Brown–in his dignity in the face of whole seasons of doomed baseball games, his endurance and stoicism in the face of insults. He … reminded people, as no other cartoon character had, of what it was to be
vulnerable, to be small and alone in the universe, to be human–both little and big at the same time.”
David Michaelis, Schulz and Peanuts,
Harper Collins, Copyright 2007 by David Michaelis, pp. 245- 247.
Now this is about the most poignant way to describe what in the heart of hearts I knew to be true. To be human — both little and big at the same time. David Michaelis has truly done a great job of writing about the author and his creation and the message that was being sent to the readers.
This is why I think that those comic strips always were favorites and I look for them everywhere. I also suspect that these cartoons have a larger adult audience than a children one.
What do you think?