Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 19, 2021

When the story is flowing, you just keep typing.

I’d rather have someone typing late at night than some of the obnoxious late-night parties that go on in my neighborhood!

What thin walls the neighbors’ house has in order to hear a typewriter.

And when he’s not doing that, he’s fighting the Red Baron.

It was a dark and sleepless night…

That would have been my parents, calling the neighbours who bought an expensive purebreed dog only to tie him up to his doghouse in the back yard, where he stood and barked day and night. I still don’t understand people who acquire dogs only to leave them tethered 24/7.

He’s a novelist. They should leave him be.

Well, he has good moonlight for working tonight.

The night doesn’t even look dark and stormy.

Don’t fall off the doghouse, Snoop. You’ll bite your tongue off. My brother is the same way. He can’t do anything without his tongue protruding.

It was a dark and typey night.

This scene could do with some typecasting… like throwing that machine over the fence.

But no one bothers him at night.

“It was a dark and stormy night…to awake your neighbors…”

Why doesn’t Snoopy just type inside the doghouse?

It was a dark and stormy night….

Some people just have to complain…

Those books don’t write themselves.

When inspiration strikes, you got no choice but to write. Go Snoopy, Go…..

It was a loud and noisy night…

Clack, clack, clack, ding!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2LJ1i7222c

The title panel reminds me of a popular yuletide film:

https://www.conceptstore.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/homealone.jpg

It was a dark and klacky night.

Ah the 70’s. When people still used typewriters.

This is why it would have been so tragic had Linus broken Snoopy’s arm yesterday. The world would have missed “It Was a Dark and Stormy Night” and other classic works.

When the muse comes, you must write.

How can you stop Snoopy from typing his stories? Would you ask GOD to stop creating the UNIVERSE?!

Yeah, that’s an apt comparison.

What kind of parents let their kids answer the phone and go outside in the middle of the night?

Sometimes when inspiration hits, you have to get it out or else you’ll forget it. Also this wouldn’t be a problem with today’s technology.

give him a cell phone

So is the silhouette of a house in the top panel the Browns’ neighbor? (Since the ? mark is coming from it.)

Ah. And this is why my parents decided to move when I started college. I did my studying and typing at the kitchen table in our little apartment. Far into the night. They must have needed some sleep. It was nice for my sister and I to get our own rooms. And I even got a desk!