Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 12, 2013
Transcript:
Rat: Hey, I just read a Marcel Proust novel and it brought up an interesting philosophical question. Goat: Good for you, reading Proust. What's the question? Rat: It's which is worse... being buried alive in a pitch-dark concrete vault for all eternity with no hope of escape, or reading Proust. Goat: You could just say you didn't like it. Rat: See, int he dark vault, you'd never have to see a Proust book again.
Sherlock Watson about 11 years ago
Too bad, Rat; you don’t stand a chance of winning the Summarize Proust Competition now.
AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member about 11 years ago
Steve Carell weeps, or at least one of his film characters.
Ida No about 11 years ago
But Rat, you’d be stuck in a dark vault and now you’d be completely unable to unremember the Proust book in your head.
Sisyphos about 11 years ago
Let’s try it and find out, Rat. Heheheh! [diabolical laugh]
TheFinalSolution about 11 years ago
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters so you’ll have room for the Nine Stories that Franny and Zooey want to read.
hoagieman12 about 11 years ago
Long way around the mountain to get to that punchline.
Thehag about 11 years ago
So love Monty Python. And Edgar A. Poe. And Pearls Before Swine!
sarah413 Premium Member about 11 years ago
Look at the bright side, at least “You Light Up My Life” wasn’t playing in the background on an endless loop.
Packratjohn Premium Member about 11 years ago
ME: Pastis, do not use Poe references in your comics, promise?\
PASTIS: Nevermore
cooganm Premium Member about 11 years ago
For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimesssszzzzzzz
aprilsphere about 11 years ago
I couldn’t agree more except I would have to put Kant in that dark vault as well.
Number Three about 11 years ago
Rat has to make everything complicated.
LOL xxx
Gokie5 about 11 years ago
“Now I have to go to Wikipedia and look up Proust to understand today’s Pearls.”Or you could read the first few pages of Remembrance of Things Past to really understand it!
Ida No about 11 years ago
“Uh, now explain the bad part? ;-D”It’d be bad for Rat, not everyone else.
Dave Ferro about 11 years ago
I felt the same as Rat when I was reading “Catcher in the Rye”… Worst book I ever read.
barister about 11 years ago
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL HA HA HA HA. I like this panel.
Don Jackson about 11 years ago
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Jude10101 over 8 years ago
I notice there havent been any croc strips recently
Boosted (Heavy main in TF2) about 6 years ago
Actually, being put in an eternal concrete vault is worse. Brrr!