Posts Tagged ‘Donna’
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Ah, romance. And Dostoyevski. I wonder if I was thinking about meeting Anya…. hm. So long ago.
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I loved that book, and even used it for the foreword of book #1.
I think the piggy-back thing is a sweet set-up.
For those of you who are baffled by all this, let me tell you: I find this strip EXTREMELY romantic.
Probably explains a lot of difficulty I’ve had in my life.
This strip has two main influences.
One is a Lenny Bruce skit, which I haven’t heard for so long I can’t remember the precise story, but basically Lenny Bruce had a friend who was very overtly homosexual, and Lenny was talking to the guy’s mom, who talked of her son much the way Donna’s mom talks of her — completely misinterpreting her “kindness” and “generosity” towards those of the same sex.
The other is that in Sex Ed, back in high school, we learned that trying to BE QUIET really was ineffective to drown out lovemaking, while blasting loud music WAS. Which, now that I think of it, is kinda’ a strange thing to learn in Sex Ed, although very useful.
Bruno’s escapism can sometimes get a bit tragic, as it is here — in the sense that what she is trying to escape is her own thoughts on the world. But even for the bold, sometimes a rest and escape is a lovely dream. :)
Ah cats. Always fun. And swayed by treats. :)
Ah, I do love me some Tennyson. It was fun comparing it to lovemaking.
Although I still love W.H. Auden for saying about Tennyson, “he had the finest ear, perhaps, of any English poet; he was undoubtedly the stupidest; there was little about melancholia that he didn’t know; there was little else that he did.”
I think I was going for a Canadian accent, maybe I had just watched “Strange Brew”? I have no idea. Anyhow, silly, but a bit embarrassing to re-read. :)
I’ve always thought that taking revenge for another was kinda’ weird. I mean, consequence is what keeps society in check and all that. But really, if someone takes me out, I’m already out, so don’t avenge it for my sake.
This strip was actually based on a conversation I had with my brother about whether tattoos showed “lack of foresight” or not. A very long conversation.
Still makes me laugh to remember.
