Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 10, 1965
January 09, 1965
January 11, 1965
Transcript:
"“HMM…” says Lucy who is standing in the snow in front of a house. <br> <br> Linus is standing in front of a Snowman, looking it over. <br> <br> Linus knells down and starts patting the snow on the snowman as Lucy walks up and says, “What would you do if I pushed your snowman over?” <br> <br> Linus stands up and holds his arms out saying ‘Nothing… What COULD I do? “<br> <br> Lucy is looking at Linus as he says to her, “You’re bigger and stronger than I am… You’re older… you can run faster… I really couldn’t do anything to stop you” <br> <br> Linus goes on explaining to Lucy, “I realize full well that I am at your mercy where things of this sort are concerned… All I can do is simply hope that you will choose not to do so…” <br> <br> Lucy walks away as Linus watches. <br> <br> Linus turns back to his snowman and starts working on it some more as he is saying, “Little by little I’m becoming an expert at the soft answers..” <br> <br>" dialogue-text,"“HMM…” says Lucy who is standing in the snow in front of a house. <br> <br> Linus is standing in front of a Snowman, looking it over. <br> <br> Linus knells down and starts patting the snow on the snowman as Lucy walks up and says, “What would you do if I pushed your snowman over?” <br> <br> Linus stands up and holds his arms out saying ‘Nothing… What COULD I do? “<br> <br> Lucy is looking at Linus as he says to her, “You’re bigger and stronger than I am… You’re older… you can run faster… I really couldn’t do anything to stop you” <br> <br> Linus goes on explaining to Lucy, “I realize full well that I am at your mercy where things of this sort are concerned… All I can do is simply hope that you will choose not to do so…” <br> <br> Lucy walks away as Linus watches. <br> <br> Linus turns back to his snowman and starts working on it some more as he is saying, “Little by little I’m becoming an expert at the soft answers..” <br> <br>"
thepinkbaroness about 4 years ago
Point, Linus!
MrJamie51 over 2 years ago
Simply Linus’s way of resigning himself to his big sister’s mercy, and the fate of his snowman-whatever will be, will be. He knows darn well that if she decides to destroy it(in cold blood, NO LESS), SO BE IT-there will be NOTHING he can do about it. This also seems to be her way of “toying with him or his feelings,” by even challenging him to be ready to fight her, lest worst case scenario she does indeed decide to destroy the snowman he just worked so hard to make. But when he comes right out and admits he cannot possibly stop her from doing so, that’s when it’s her turn to admit defeat, as seen in next to last panel, when she turns and leaves him alone.
DoubleU 10 months ago
Smart kid. He knows his sister craves a reaction, so he starves her of one.