Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 30, 2023

An epic of human nature?

Strangely, Covid means that noticeably more people than ‘usually’ (whatever that is) did NOT survive the winter.

… with a dog that earned the name White Fang.

The Sea Wolf would introduce Caulfield to an interesting way of life!

Caulfield obviously is not describing his winter.

Next time tell him how you starved when you missed lunch yesterday.

For a lot of seniors, just surviving the winter is epic.

*Canine fortitude, Caulfield. Have you actually read Jack London?

When a couple co-workers had a vehicle breakdown in the Australian outback, the one who tried to walk out was the one who died.

Today – depending on where you live – the survival might be more questionable in a scorching summer or hurricane season or monsoon like conditions, where no monsoons usually don’t take place.

Tell that to the people that had up to 30ft of snow to deal with in Cali and Utah areas

Read “John Barleycorn” by London and the “long dark nights” will make more sense

Sark Notes summery of Holden Caulfield character:“Although he is intelligent and sensitive, Holden narrates in a cynical and jaded voice. He finds the hypocrisy and ugliness of the world around him almost unbearable, and through his cynicism he tries to protect himself from the pain and disappointment of the adult world.”

He’s not wrong…

Some people want to take us back to those days where the “weak” died en masse. For their own sakes, they’d better hope they fail.

I bet you all feel like little mice being tortured by a giant cat.

Heh. Plowed roads. Come to the northeast in winter, you’ll find out how ‘safe’ plowed roads are.

He obviously wasn’t in Buffalo this winter, especially at Christmastime.

I believe the question is whether she had to be rescued from Caulfield.

Was Caulfield thinking of To Build A Fire?