Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 09:19:05 -0700
Subject: Re: PUPT: cartoon interpretation


  I think they should rename it "CartoonBLANK.com".  I don't see any dots 
in either the thumbnail or the enlarged picture.   Try wiping off your 
computer screen.... :)

Ax



At 10:40 AM 7/30/02 -0500, you wrote:
>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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