Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 05, 2022

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    marilynnbyerly  over 2 years ago

    She should really read the book. Tom’s technique of painting a fence would be quite useful for her in her schemes.

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    eastern.woods.metal  over 2 years ago

    So who assigned the summer reading? The teacher that has passed her to the net grade ( because she doesn’t want her back ) or the next teacher she hasn’t met yet ?

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    Enter.Name.Here  over 2 years ago

    If I was going to “absorb” a good book, then I could not think of a better choice to start with.

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    hariseldon59  over 2 years ago

    She could try the sleep learning method where you listen to an audio recording while you sleep. I’m not sure there’s really any evidence that works, either.

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    Asharah  over 2 years ago

    Had a teacher who would tell certain kids they should sleep with the textbook under their pillow and pray for osmosis.

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    Doug K  over 2 years ago

    She’s hoping & planning to have the rest of summer off by getting rest.

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    nosirrom  over 2 years ago

    We never had summer reading when I was a kid. I guess teachers back then thought comic books were sufficient to keep up our reading skills.

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    The Pro from Dover  over 2 years ago

    Just before my freshman year of high school they gave us a list of books for summer reading. One of them was Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver. Being a naive dummy I thought it was about ice hockey. Mother, going to the bookstore, told me she could pick it up for me. It was quite an awakening.

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    keenanthelibrarian  over 2 years ago

    This one’s from 2018; I think Wiley’s on holiday.

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    sandpiper  over 2 years ago

    One of Danae’s very rare moments without complaining or thinking of ways to change society to suit her ideas. Enjoy it, Friends. It won’t last.

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    Billavi Premium Member over 2 years ago

    It’s about a modern-day warrior with a mean, mean stride.

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    LawrenceS  over 2 years ago

    So… would someone unfamiliar with the basics of Tom Sawyer know/use the word osmosis?

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    MIHorn Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Reminds me of “The Music Man” and Prof. Hill’s “think” system for learning to play an instrument.

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    Chris Littler  over 2 years ago

    In my school days (1962-75) I never had summer reading assignments.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    If I had Audible when I was a kid I would have listened to/read every book on my summer reading list. The words are just as valid whether they are read or listened to.

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    Say What? Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I have dealt with students like that this past school year. It also helped telling them to not look at the book summary when asking what their books were about.

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    uniquename  over 2 years ago

    Read that one Danae. “Tom Sawyer” is a great book.

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    Just-me  over 2 years ago

    Some parents I became acquainted with were telling me their child would meditate over his textbooks and after stacking them up would place his head on them and go to sleep. I don’t think the meditation or osmosis worked, the kid flunked out of the private school he had been attending, which I think might have been the point.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Don’t bother reading it. It is being banned for being racist, I mean, white supremacist. Not only does it (gasp!) use the N-word but the villain of the story is a Native American with a racist name. When the children’s series “Wishbone” did its treatment of the book, the bad guy’s name was changed to “Crazy Joe” which was equally demeaning to people with mental disorders.

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    rich5021  over 2 years ago

    I have always enjoyed reading. I get lost in the stories. The biggest buzz kill for me was knowing that I was going to take a test or write a book report/paper on what I had read. Even worse was having to stand up in front of the class and make an oral report on it. I was petrified by this when I was in middle school. Oddly enough, I ended up as a teacher and had no problems with public speaking.

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    Linguist  over 2 years ago

    I love Wiley’s subtlety! Tom Sawyer is the perfect book for this cartoon. A sawyer is someone who saws logs and that’s what Danae’s snoring probably sounds like!

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    mistercatworks  over 2 years ago

    I went out with a woman who was so nearsighted she could focus on her own eyelashes. Without her glasses, she would have to read much the way Danae is doing.

    “Tom Sawyer”, dialect and racial portrayal notwithstanding, is still a classic.

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    hawkeyec Premium Member over 2 years ago

    True story. My sophomore roommate in boarding school was a staunch proponent of this technique. He didn’t talk about it, he just did it. He never could understand why he got terrible grades. He flunked out.

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    mindjob  over 2 years ago

    If osmosis worked, we would have retained the wisdom of our ancestors through all the generations since the beginning of time

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    JenSolo02  over 2 years ago

    She knows the word “osmosis”, or so she thinks…

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    Bobbin Dobbins  over 2 years ago

    I’ve often wondered, but been afraid to ask, is Lucy a real horse, or a stuffed animal like Hobbes? Or entirely imaginary? I notice that she only talks to Danae — Danae’s “Dr. Jekyll,” perhaps?

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    Display  over 2 years ago

    And yet she still knows more about the book than the vast majority of those who want to see it banned.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  over 2 years ago

    She needs to read Lovecraft, especially “The Dunwich Horror” and “Call of Cthulhu” might give her ideas, also “Whisperers in the Darkness” would also give her a fright.

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    epeters55  over 2 years ago
    I’m surprised no one here has yet mentioned that the term she was looking for is diffusion, not osmosis which refers to the more specific case of diffusion of water. But then, thanks to the pedant giants of the past, at least everyone knows the word osmosis, which is a start. And of course, since everyone knows what she meant, everyone but linguistic purists are happy.
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    TravisTarrant  over 2 years ago

    Love this!!! If Danae is featured in the comic, it’s guaranteed to be great.

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    Bobbin Dobbins  over 2 years ago

    I had to read Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” in high school (“Huckleberry Finn,” too — always good for a re-read). I got a D on my book summary for not understanding what it was about. So I copied the blurb off the jacket and got an A. Later I read about the critics writing at length about the deep psychological meaning behind Dostoyevsky’s use of the color yellow in describing room decor and how it was later discovered that yellow was actually the only paint pigment avaliable in St. Petersburg at that time. I have since read all the books about “Catcher in the Rye,” e g., with a large helping of salt. Trust in yourself.

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    Rauderi  over 2 years ago

    If you try to read by osmosis, you just get the book wet. Better to read by facilitated diffusion.

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    jokes4tom  over 2 years ago

    This looks just like a rerun of 6/7/18

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    198.23.5.11  over 2 years ago

    I would advise NOT to let Danae anywhere near TOM SAWYER;she’ll learn too many new tricks from it.

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    Marblypup  over 2 years ago

    Tony Esteves’ take on this joke, from 22+ years ago: http://www.cigarro.ca/comic/cramming/

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