Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 29, 2020

Poe’s “Mask of the Red Death?” How about dressing up as an English professor? (The Scarlet Plague by Jack London)

I was betting on Camus. Now, I’m awaiting Friday/Saturday with baited breath. (Yes, I ate cheese.)

Andromeda Strain?

If not The Stand what about The Andromeda Strain?

There’s always the Decameron, though possibly too adult for Caulfield.

Go as a bloated orange idiot with a tribble on his head!

COVID the Barbarian?

He could wear a plague doctor’s mask / outfit:

https://www.google.com/search?q=plague+doctor+mask&newwindow=1&tbm=isch&sxsrf=ALeKk02KAIT9zfdXSRSkPQrDMObBulZNeA:1603961182722&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi15p2EtdnsAhVDlFkKHTWlAKEQ_AUI3wMoAQ&biw=1125&bih=635

I hope Jef hasn’t picked out some obscure book no one’s ever heard of.

1,2,3, One-Two-Three, 1,2,3, …

Or H.G. Wells book “In the Days of the Comet”…

Try going as Matilda. Then the waltz would be natural.

How about Mein Kampf?

I’ve read The Stand twice. GOD! What an amazing book…

Stupidity is in epidemic proportions this year.

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

The physician, one of the aunts, or even the white lie in

Was it Heaven? Or Hell?by Mark Twain

may be a good one.

At age 8 he is THOROUGHLY unlikely to have read the two references in Chaucer.

Nothing is quite like having the competition gone:

https://www.popmatters.com/chaucer-and-the-plague-2646019619.html?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3

includes:

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Chaucer’s lifetime, and his family’s prosperity, overlaps with the initial cataclysmic arrival and cyclic recurrence of plague. While Chaucer was not born into the landed gentry, both of his parents inherited significant land after plague killed all of his London relatives in 1439, and their new wealth likely enabled Chaucer’s career at court (Turner).

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Love in the time of Covid-19?

You want obscure then the Scarlet Plague by Jack London will do.

Contagion.

Ah, with the Arctic frozen methane starting to melt and escape, a character from the book “Denver is Missing” might be apropos of the times, and NOT Covid-related, so more obscure. >^..^<

Could be Nehemiah Scudder from Heinlein’s “If This Goes On” – yet, too close for comfort to me.