Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 19, 2018

Nice throw, Kate! Strike three!

Now we know who’s the dummy. (Gosh, I hated to say that!)

I’ve seen people throw their voice, but not from another room.

Is that the Dummy’s Guide to Guiding a Dummy Into Reading Books book?

I love Katie, Wiley….What a perfect foil for Danae…Little Miss Sweetness and Light…..But with an interesting streak running through her…..Thank you for creating her character….

Kate is adaptable: if direct intervention doesn’t work, go for sneaky

You go, Kate!!! The man who cannot read, may be poor, but poorer still, is the man who can read and will not.

Didn’t see that one coming.

GOTCHA, Danae! Kudos for Kate!

I tried ventriloquism but the whole thing just threw me.

Having seen ventriloquists in my youth, I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t work that way.

It’s strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn’t even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s. Jeff Dunham

It’s nice that the week ended well for all of them for a change.

With Danae, she can turn anything good, like reading, into something bad if she finds it can possibly gain power.

So many books to read……..So little time……..

^ like (strip)

Kudos to you Kate, you’ve reminded me of the meaning of the word: gullible !!!

Years ago I worked with “Walt” the shop foreman… a fool to be sure…He told me to weld something in a manner that would compromise the integrity of the base metal and cause corrosion and cracking.I refused stating that is not the proper procedure….“Who told you that?” he yelled….I said I read it in one of my welding text books….“A Book?… A Book?… he yelled. "What the hell are you going to learn froma Book?….End of argument…I walked away in disgust, and laughing….I told the boss and the boss told me to tell him where to go….

Ventriloquism! I haven’t heard that term for a decade or more. In the 1950s it seemed that every comic strip had a ventriloquism skit. Huey, Dewey and Louie were especially adept at it.

I was sad to read that biographers won’t write about your life if you have nothing that was icky or dramatic. which would mean that Kate no matter what she did as long as she lived a spotless life no one would write about her but would jump at the chance to write about Danae because her life would be full of the scandals , bizarre actions and wild ideas and other things they like to exploit.

Example:

here are more problems with the autopsy approach. The historically creative people included in today’s studies must have had a sufficient amount written about them to establish a diagnostic status, and, naturally, people with more sensational lives have had more written about them. Staid lives don’t sell. Judith Schlesinger, in her book The Insanity Hoax (2012), illustrates the point: multiple biographers abandoned projects about the American saxophonist Bud Shank because they were unable to uncover any salacious details about his life. Plus, biographers need to tell a story, so they inevitably emphasise and distort the details of their subject’s lives in order to engage their readers (or perhaps to adhere to their own romantic conceptions of what creativity is).