Mark H. sends this one in as an LOL (not a CIDU). The original goes like this:
Jane and Martin
Sitting in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G!
First comes love
Then comes marriage
Then comes baby
In a baby carriage!
So can we provide some finishes to Randall Munroe’s starting lines, or provide our own?
CIDU: Here’s a chance for some early-riser readers to explain for others the allusions to a certain (probably false!) famous Hemingway anecdote.
LOL: But also, all can just enjoy these (somewhat sour!) joke mini-strips.
This Crankshaft is from Usual John:
And he asks “Who is the creepy-looking old lady to the right? She just continues to stand wordlessly in the background over the next few days, as the book club fails to read Ulysses.”
As an incidental artistic problem, I wonder what the artist had in mind (or had as a model) in drawing the book and its cover. I can’t match it to any edition of Ulysses I can find discussed online. And that man pictured can’t plausibly be identified as Joyce, nor as either of the leading male characters, Bloom and Stephen.
I didn’t know the poem or what poet it was (until seeing the credits at the end)
When people talk about Faulkner these days, they tend to concentrate on societal portrayals, and sometimes forget that he was right up there with the (other) Modernists when it comes to novel and effective experimental narration. (Or else, as some of the GoComics commenters would have it, reduce his style to complaining of unparseably long Proustian sentences.)
AILD, while still very consciously / critically “Southern”, is really fun and funny, and a great demo of taking a then-new technical experimental narrative device, and running with it!
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