Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 20, 2023

Many creative people keep a diary of some sort to retain passing ideas. Sometimes even a notebook and pencil by the bed to record dreams upon awaking.

Conversations like this is why I seldom listen to my wife. Dizzy.

Panel 3: Frazz’s broom is now a guitar.

My wife and I frequently have conversations like this and they usually end up with her saying, “I’m not telling you anything anymore because you take everything wrong.” I wonder what she means by that?

This “reminds” me of the scene in Peter Pan where he and Hook fight on the rock for Tiger Lily. Peter realizes he has the upper hand so instead of driving his dagger into Hook, he extends a hand to help him in order for it to be a fair fight.

“It was then that Hook bit him. (We later find out this means the iron hand clawed him twice.)

Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter. He often met it, but he always forgot it. I suppose that was the real difference between him and all the rest.

So when he met it now it was like the first time; and he could just stare, helpless. Twice the iron hand clawed him.”

Frazz’s final comment plays both ways.

The real test is when you remember the idea and then figure out if it was stupid to begin with.

“Dang. It was right on the tip of my tongue, and now it’s gone!”

“Don’t worry, it’ll come back.”

“No, it won’t. It was a postage stamp.”

While My O Cedar Gently Weeps…