/lit/ - Literature

>>9282580
>this guy

>this thread

>>9273763
The PAWS, INC 1978 Garfield Pipe Gag, "Garfield Pipe Strip" by Jim Davis delineates an array of interpretative portrait. John establishes a relationship with the reader instantaneously by assuming the reader may know where his pipe is and in subsequently agreeing to this shared knowledge with the reader he establishes a course of action based on the factual outcome beforehand. In this sense a pretense of not knowing engenders a politics of condescension: a question turned inside out suggesting the reader himself may not be entirely sincere with what he knows relating to his predicament. The logical reason perhaps belonging to the relationship Garfield, then, shares with the reader as the empathetic figure which allegiance is presumed to be shared with. Additionally Davis has orchestrated this set of relations implying he as well plays a role of god figure and in consent to this as reinforced by the number of distributions this comic and the Garfield franchise, by extension, may be said to have. Garfield represents the one who is not only apathetic to the drama moving up to him but the resolution itself as one who refuses to play, his pipe colored a deep purple as symbolic satire to the higher reality of the situation. Jim prepares his initials and date of reaction only after Garfield has agreed to the terms of his behavior in the affirmation silence shares with itself. In coming age Garfield's physique would be formated into a more pleasant and ironic figure to which he grows into as John, characteristically, accepts this underlying reality and comes to accept him as a friend unwittingly. The billion dollar Garfield market as well as its extensive adaptations further represent what we have allowed to happen without specific favor as demonstrated by the origin of it all only opening up to critical analysis decades later.

in the spirit of bullshit happy birthday zizek

>>9270527
Just do it.