Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for January 17, 2014

Now, now Gertie, don’t contradict the boss.

PATIENCE…In another 3 minutes it’ll be 500.

Can anyone say Colonel Heeza Liar or the Major? Or better still, Commander McBragg?

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The hungry lions were all swinging their tails like angry kitties getting ready to lunge. Then suddenly…

“Good heavens, Commander! Whatever did you do?”

“Breaking the fourth wall” has a specific meaning. It is for the characters to address the audience (readers) directly. That is not what is happening here.

She is so “buying” Walt’s story that her internal visualization of the story is so real to her that she thinks that Scotty the Photographer can “catch” it. Obviously a seasoned reporter would have more “guile” but it allows J.S. to draw the Lion scene in a single story flowing cell.

Henry IV, Part I has a classic scene in which the number of people who had attacked Falstaff grows with each of his lines.