tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post7641988182001825611..comments2024-03-28T03:13:15.831-04:00Comments on Remarkable: Russell Edson’s “The Parental Decision”Geoff Klockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080580776997273785noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-75252591286652304722007-11-03T13:13:00.000-04:002007-11-03T13:13:00.000-04:00Roger: thats a good pointStephen: yeah, probably.Roger: thats a good point<BR/><BR/>Stephen: yeah, probably.Geoff Klockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09080580776997273785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-44677931433326139512007-11-02T12:02:00.000-04:002007-11-02T12:02:00.000-04:00Would it be equally fair to say: "If modern comics...Would it be equally fair to say: "If modern comics seem weird and impossible to understand, it is often the case that you are just missing another text that the comic you are reading is thinking of"?<BR/><BR/>SFStephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16524368948187746248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-86185418639274310722007-11-02T10:23:00.000-04:002007-11-02T10:23:00.000-04:00thanks for the edison citation. I've never heard ...thanks for the edison citation. I've never heard of this. <BR/><BR/>The interesting thing, for me, about the Mental Traveller is that the world that must be escaped is the world that we create by trying to escape our woe with joy. "For there the Babe is born in joy/ <BR/>That was begotten in dire woe/Just as we Reap in joy the fruit/Which we in bitter tears did sow"<BR/><BR/>So, escaping Blake's world of misery means rejecting both our woe and our joy.Roger Whitsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09728434263500252895noreply@blogger.com