Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:40:38 -0500
Subject: PUPT: cartoon interpretation


I hate to show my ignorance but, hey, I'm living in the midwest, ha!
A friend gave me a cartoon from THE NEW YORKER -- from several weeks ago
-- in which two figures are in a hospital room.  One figure is a human
whose his limbs are suspended from traction devices.  The second figure
is a marionette or a human suspended from a marionette control.  There
is something unusual about one of the strings -- the part of the figure
which could be moved by that string.  The obviously human figure is
looking at the "marionette" with a startled look and the eyes of the
"marionette" seem to be looking at the viewer of the cartoon.  In the
space below the beds -- the space where the caption usually goes -- are
two dots separated by about three quarters of an inch.  Does anyone know
the meaning of these dots?  One of my friends thinks they are a printing
error but a couple of us believe there is some esoteric meaning.  Anyone
know?

Dorlis Grubidge





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