Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 12, 1986
Transcript:
George Will: If Gary Hart's demeanor once evoked passages from the Hindu epic, Bhagavad Gita, today he provides gray reminders of bishop Laud's advice to Charles I. We are the less well-heeled for it. One can almost taste on the mind's palate, the pugency of Gotterdammerung, braised in the juices of the Wagnerian zeitgeist. What remains is mundane. As Piet Mondrian is said to have scribbled in the margins of a monograph later published in De Stijl, "Pick up laundry, milk." Tripler: He used it! Higgins: Don't get cocky.