6a1b) Full context: Peanuts April 1973 at Fandom
6a3) All I ever needed to know about life I read in a Peanuts strip. Well, until I watched Seinfeld. Two great existentialist comedies that reveal profound truths about the absurd condition of modern humans.
I suppose it is not entirely surprising that the final panel has stuck in my head since my first reading...um, quite a while ago. If human life is absurd, what could be more absurd to a child than parents? Worse even, a group of parents.
Maybe it's stretching fault laying a bit to say the world's ills could be laid to a group of parents getting together. But as another Mother's Day has passed, and a Father's is in the offing, an act of of compassion in the awareness that children grow to be parents, grandparents, and if they are lucky, great-grandparents.
Just one more absurdity in this experience of irony we call human life.
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