The persistence of Calvin & Hobbes
From Production of Presence, p 135:
Now I know that I shall never allow myself to call a day "a perfect day" without having the certainty that what was good about it for me had conquered my body—up to the point indeed of giving me the feeling that I was, somehow, the embodiment of that perfect day.
Is this not the same lesson we take from the C&H strip in which Calvin opines that if, at the end of the day, one does not have grass stains on one's knees, one ought seriously to reëvaluate one's life? Consider also in this light the strip in which Calvin recounts the various things that have imprinted themselves on his body throught the day and concludes that he considers it seized, and goes on to proclaim that "tomorrow we'll seize the day and throttle it".
It is no doubt significant that both of these reflections are made while Calvin bathes.
Comments
on 2006-04-05 21:27:34.0, bitchphd commented:
I definitely feel that a day without stains of some sort on one's knees is a wasted day, yes.
and, further, on 2006-04-10 16:57:01.0, Adam Kotsko commented:
The dieresis is perfect.