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wickedfleaPeople will just say any kind of old bullshit. Check out this excerpt from this article about the existentialism of Peanuts:
Now, I'm not saying that the whole thesis is off base; actually it's so right on as to be obvious to me. But come on--Linus was talking about his tongue, for crying out loud. Nothing else.
That's one of my favorite strips, by the way. I hate when I become aware of my tongue. You know how it feels too big for your mouth? I hope that never happens to me agai--
Uh oh.
Existence is problematic and disturbing. In one weekend strip, Schulz succinctly describes the horror of discovering one's own existence in the world:Linus: I'm aware of my tongue ... It's an awful feeling! Every now and then I become aware that I have a tongue inside my mouth, and then it starts to feel lumped up ... I can't help it ... I can't put it out of my mind. ... I keep thinking about where my tongue would be if I weren't thinking about it, and then I can feel it sort of pressing against my teeth ...
Sartre devoted an entire book to this experience--his 1938 novel Nausea in which his character Roquentin is alarmed to discover his own actuality. But Linus sums the point up very well in a few frames.
Now, I'm not saying that the whole thesis is off base; actually it's so right on as to be obvious to me. But come on--Linus was talking about his tongue, for crying out loud. Nothing else.
That's one of my favorite strips, by the way. I hate when I become aware of my tongue. You know how it feels too big for your mouth? I hope that never happens to me agai--
Uh oh.
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