Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Two ponies
"It took that stone four thousand years to get to shore, and now you’ve thrown it back."
"Everything I do makes me feel guilty."
--Linus and Charlie Brown
It's easy sometimes to forget what an amazingly sad comic Peanuts was. It's also in the top few overall influences on my writing. It's hard to read it for very long now without tearing up a little.
"Everything I do makes me feel guilty."
--Linus and Charlie Brown
It's easy sometimes to forget what an amazingly sad comic Peanuts was. It's also in the top few overall influences on my writing. It's hard to read it for very long now without tearing up a little.
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You just quoted my all time favorite comic strip. ever. The first time I read that was in the 4th grade, when I checked out a Peanuts Anthology.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I was going to quote the one where Charlie Brown daydreams about having two ponies to go riding with the little red-headed girl, then asks Snoopy why he's not two ponies, but I couldn't find the full text online.
There are so many good ones...
There are so many good ones...
Chapter 1, verses 1-4, of what I knew about disillusionment: Charlie Brown passes the house of the Little Red-Haired Girl, the object of his eternal fruitless longing. He sits down with Snoopy and says, "I wish I had two ponies." He imagines offering one of the ponies to the Little Red-Haired Girl, riding out into the countryside with her, and sitting down with her beneath a tree. Suddenly, he's scowling at Snoopy and asking, "Why aren't you two ponies?" Snoopy, rolling his eyes, thinks, "I knew we'd get around to that."
Check out me Peanuts poem in the current issue of Georgetown Review. Sad. I wrote: "time is a sketch, an eraser." I Heart Peanuts.
Steve,
We must have gone to different schools together at the same time.
Peanuts is a major influence on my poetry. There's a sadness in those cartoons, akin to longing for perfection in a world that knows no such thing. In an odd way, the best strips remind me of Antonio Machado.
I've got a poem about faith and doubt called "The Great Pumpkin," and if Linus's vigil in the pumpkin patch year after year isn't spot-on allegory, I don't know what is.
Thanks for a great post.
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We must have gone to different schools together at the same time.
Peanuts is a major influence on my poetry. There's a sadness in those cartoons, akin to longing for perfection in a world that knows no such thing. In an odd way, the best strips remind me of Antonio Machado.
I've got a poem about faith and doubt called "The Great Pumpkin," and if Linus's vigil in the pumpkin patch year after year isn't spot-on allegory, I don't know what is.
Thanks for a great post.
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