Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 20, 2022

Jeremy is thinking of Twain, but the “P” probably comes from The Prince and the Pauper. The “C” can be for Clemens.

Walt Whitman…Leaves of Grass, cause she is in the park.

sounds like an Eddie Murphy movie to me

Just hope it’s not a “K”; a lot of misery in that zone.

Or maybe a version of “The Parent Trap”….

Wodehouse? Wordsworth?

Actually it’s T. Mark Twain. I thought he was the second best seller next to the Bible.

I recall back in 1966 a story in the Golden Magazine when two girls switched places as princess and commoner. Neither liked passing for the other.

Try Mark Twain, ‘The Prince and the Pauper’.

Twain.

T. Vintage Trudeau.

It’s something out of Trump. Maybe she went to the rally.

Never the Twain shall meet…

I was leaning more towards Twain or Clemens, or both for that matter.

How about Tom Wolfe? I wouldn’t be surprised to find out Elmont was one of the merry pranksters back in the day.

You keep talking, so she can keep eating.

“Pearl” is the only sane one of the 4, isn’t she.

Twain

“Begins with an ‘A’. Alphabet?”

Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper.

Twain, Mark Twain. The Prince and the Pauper was what they were thinking of.

tWain

What cracks me up is that he went straight from Dickens to Hemingway…quite a stretch, there…

Mark Twain.

Gosh! Only twenty posts for Twain/Prince and the Pauper today. Doesn’t anybody read the posts before contributing?

Kafka with overtones of Dickens.

I want to believe he’s trying to think of Mark Twain’s “The Prince and the Pauper”.

Emphasis on ‘trying’.

I hope she’s stashing some food for Elmont somewhere?

Xena did several role switches, as I recall—swapping bodies with Callisto and, in several instances, straight impersonations. (As I recall, the latter involved a waitress, a princess, and a lady of, er, easy virtue.) I think that there were some other body swaps and look-alike impersonations as well, with some other characters.