Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for February 24, 2020

Nancy the existentialist. She’s been reading her Schopenhauer.

I can only answer question number 3. The answer is ‘yes’…

1. For funsies.

2. For funsies.

3. Yes. (for funsies, I’m sure)

In other Nancy news, with Norm Feuti’s “Retail” having ended the good folk at the Deseret News have decided to replace it with OJ’s Nancy:

https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2020/2/23/21145576/comics-retail-grumbels-closes-shop-norm-feuti-nancy-olivia-jaimes-fritzi-ritz-sluggo

No doubt a certain portly syndicate person is happy to have stolen one from King Features.

Wait, I get it … Nancy’s questions become progressively harder too! I see what you did there!

I think what Nancy’s really trying to ask is why learning makes things harder rather than easier.

Too deep for me when I read it at 5am. Perhaps after a coffee and a pipe, it will become clear?

Speaking as a human being, I am not sure I crave “increasingly hard challenges.” I may be miss identifying myself.

With school, the struggle is finite, having a clearly defined ending. It’s only life that requires “endless” (from your own POV) struggle.

Years ago, a friend in fandom asked his readers “So you go to school, and you graduate, and then what? Years and years of just living?” For some reason, this haunted me.

That’s the price you pay for unlimited breadsticks and salad…

FUN FACT. Life’s a bitch. Then, you die.

Suddenly she’s a Rhodes scholar!!! Is this a result of hanging with Sluggo!!!?

The meaning of life, (the universe and everything) is 42.

3: can’t answer, spoilers.

1. Because humans crave increasingly difficult challenges. 2. Because endless struggle is the only meaning of life. 3. Yes.

“Fatti non foste a viver come lupi / ma per seguitar virtute e canoscenza” By Messer Dante Alighieri 1300 BC circa .

Being miserable builds character and the answer to the meaning of life is 42.