[2017-11-15] Fascinating
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 6:12 pm
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fascinating
The character Gil Pender (played by Owen Wilson) in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris made the observation that there are people in every era who romanticize other eras. Gil romanticized Hemingway's and the Fitzgeralds' Paris of the 1920s, only to find that they romanticized La Belle Époque, and that artists of that period romanticized the Renaissance. Gil finally realizes that total satisfaction has never characterized the human experience, and decides to return to the present and participate fully in it.
Fun fact: Did you know that the toothbrush was invented in Arkansas? If it had been anywhere else, it would have been called a teethbrush.
The character Gil Pender (played by Owen Wilson) in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris made the observation that there are people in every era who romanticize other eras. Gil romanticized Hemingway's and the Fitzgeralds' Paris of the 1920s, only to find that they romanticized La Belle Époque, and that artists of that period romanticized the Renaissance. Gil finally realizes that total satisfaction has never characterized the human experience, and decides to return to the present and participate fully in it.
Fun fact: Did you know that the toothbrush was invented in Arkansas? If it had been anywhere else, it would have been called a teethbrush.