Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 12, 2013

Too bad, Rat; you don’t stand a chance of winning the Summarize Proust Competition now.

Steve Carell weeps, or at least one of his film characters.

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.

Let’s try it and find out, Rat. Heheheh! [diabolical laugh]

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters so you’ll have room for the Nine Stories that Franny and Zooey want to read.

Long way around the mountain to get to that punchline.

So love Monty Python. And Edgar A. Poe. And Pearls Before Swine!

Look at the bright side, at least “You Light Up My Life” wasn’t playing in the background on an endless loop.

ME: Pastis, do not use Poe references in your comics, promise?\

PASTIS: Nevermore

For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimesssszzzzzzz

I couldn’t agree more except I would have to put Kant in that dark vault as well.

Rat has to make everything complicated.

LOL xxx

“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!

“Uh, now explain the bad part? ;-D”It’d be bad for Rat, not everyone else.

I felt the same as Rat when I was reading “Catcher in the Rye”… Worst book I ever read.

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL HA HA HA HA. I like this panel.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

I notice there havent been any croc strips recently

Actually, being put in an eternal concrete vault is worse. Brrr!