You might not like them, but you will have heard of them or seen them, because Snoopy Charlie Brown’s sometimes pet dog is so universal, in particular due to his impossible act of sitting comfortably on top the the apex of his kennel. From there aside when he’s not musing or in aerial combat with The Red Baron he is writing The Great American Novel.
Personally I would suggest Schulz’s humour is at its most incisive and witty when we are privileged to see Snoopy the Author in action.
Just to share one which no matter how grumpy, grim or downright mean I feel will always lighten the mood and put me level. It’s the combination of a magnificently awful corny (but clever) punch line and then the response, one that makes perfect sense.
Be fair. You can understand her reaction, can’t you?
“Ode to Joy” (German: “An die Freude”is anode written in the summer of 1785 by German poet, playwright, and historian Friedrich Schiller and published the following year in Thalia. A slightly revised version appeared in 1808, changing two lines of the first and omitting the last stanza.
O friends, no more these sounds!
Let us sing more cheerful songs,
more full of joy!
Joy, bright spark of divinity,
Daughter of Elysium,
Fire-inspired we tread
Thy sanctuary.
Thy magic power re-unites
All that custom has divided,
All men become brothers
Under the sway of thy gentle wings.
Whoever has created
An abiding friendship,
Or has won
A true and loving wife,
All who can call at least one soul theirs,
Join in our song of praise;
But any who cannot must creep tearfully
Away from our circle.
All creatures drink of joy
At nature’s breast.
Just and unjust
Alike taste of her gift;
She gave us kisses and the fruit of the vine,
A tried friend to the end.
Even the worm can feel contentment,
And the cherub stands before God!
Gladly, like the heavenly bodies
Which He set on their courses
Through the splendor of the firmament;
Thus, brothers, you should run your race,
As a hero going to conquest.
You millions, I embrace you.
This kiss is for all the world!
Brothers, above the starry canopy
There must dwell a loving Father.
Do you fall in worship, you millions?
World, do you know your creator?
Seek him in the heavens;
Above the stars must He dwell.
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