I personally think the friendlier thing for the Friends to have done was just discard or destroy the photos without saying anything: now, Arlo won’t be able to look anybody in the face at the next library fundraiser.
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I think finding those pics in ‘Lake Wobegon Days’ book is ironic, considering what happened with Garrison Keillor this year.
And speaking of irony, which I believe we were SOMEplace . . .
http://www.jesusandmo.net/comic/ploy2/
“I personally think the friendlier thing for the Friends to have done was just discard or destroy the photos without saying anything”
If they were polaroids, they were part of a limited collection, and likely irreplaceable. Polaroid film was expensive, and has been in extremely limited supply of late.
And if they are polaroids, they’re old. So maybe your old wrinkly self would like to see pics from when you were young and pretty.
What about Arlo? Maybe HE was ‘better than average’ also.
Polaroids fade rather quickly; I’d be surprised if they were still viewable.
And seeing as Arlo threw them into the fire without letting Janis see them, maybe they WEREN’T of Janis??
“And seeing as Arlo threw them into the fire without letting Janis see them”
He threw the letter into the fire. The polaroids’ fate is indeterminate.
Panel 3: The letter is in his right hand. The Polaroids are in his left hand.
Panel 4: He appears to have just thrown whatever was in his left hand into the fire.
Just saying.
Evidence in support of what I said before::
Panel 3: Not standing in front of the fireplace
Panel 4: Standing in front of the fireplace.
Janis is annoyed that he didn’t let her read the letter. This suggests that the letter is no longer available to read, i.e.,it is in the fireplace.
Since Janis doesn’t know about the polaroids, she doesn’t ask about them. Therefore, they may ALSO be in the fire, or they may be anwhere else Janis can’t see them.
Hypothesis: Arlo has secreted them somewhere out of sight in his house, as he traveled from where he was in panel 3, to where he is in panel 4. Then he burned the letter, to destroy evidence that either he or Janis accidentally allowed the photos to leave their (collective) possession.