Showing posts with label Deep Thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Deep Thoughts. Show all posts

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Snarkhunter’s Guide to the Universe



Lewis Carroll would be pleased to learn that scientists have finally confirmed what he had suspected for so long: that the entire cosmos, every last bit of it from the depanneur on the corner to the Horsehead Nebula, is actually an infinitely powerful supercomputer that just happens to look like Life, the Universe and Everything In It.

Carroll concealed this snippet of information inside his exegesis on the Jubjub’s Song, part of which is seen above. We see a bit of the Cosmos calculating the outcome of a frighteningly complex metamathematical operation whose purpose is so recondite, so deviously byzantine in its fiendish tautological perplexity that the Cosmos has totally forgotten what it was that it was supposed to be thinking about in the first place.

Stupido ergo sum — the song of the Jubjub!

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Snark, Strangeness & Charm



Over at The Comics Journal, Dave Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp has been taken hostage and been given a good tickling with a lead-weighted feather duster. To be truthful, the whole discussion (which really is worth reading if only for the cut-to-the-chase comments of Eddie Campbell) makes this artist’s brain hurt.

It seems that comix can, if put on a strict diet of giggling art-school coeds and gin-soaked compresses, aspire to the condition of Art, with all the usual accessories of Meaning, Culture, Reference, etc. … the mind boggles, and having boggled, moves on.

To all of which we Snark Hunters must say — pshaw! It is we, the Carrollian Thickies of the Sequential Art World, who shall proudly stand up and remind the artistic world that deep underneath it all, The Hunting of the Snark is quite shallow. False pretences begone!