{"id":42,"date":"2004-10-15T06:28:15","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T06:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2004-10-15T06:28:15","modified_gmt":"2004-10-15T06:28:15","slug":"rowrbazzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"rowrbazzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice article [thanks to Ron Nigh for the pointer] by John Crowley (<a href=\"http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/BR29.5\/crowley.html\">The Happy Place<\/a>, from <b>Boston Review<\/b>) reflecting on the republication of the daily <i>Pogo<\/i> strips, 1948-1960. An essential of their charm and personal significance is their language, and Crowley has it just right:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The constancy of puns and wordplay; the subtle transmogrification of words into unrelated but significant other words that shadow them; the misheard, misremembered, and misspoken\u2014the language not only drives the strips forward but embellishes the corners and backgrounds of panel upon panel with play that is not quite nonsense: <i>Sent under separate cover of darkness . . . Support you in the style to which you are a customer . . . It don\u2019t pay to Tinker for Ever with Chance . . . To corn a phrase . . . Girl of the Limberwurst . . . Never dark on the door again.<\/i><br \/>\n&#8230;the elaborate and continuous verbal play &#8230;was a constant feature of my own household, and seems to me clearly related not only to innate (or at least highly regarded and rewarded) verbal facility but also to a compulsion to put signifiers in doubt where the signified (sex, say, or money, or religion) is hard to approach directly. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice article [thanks to Ron Nigh for the pointer] by John Crowley (The Happy Place, from Boston Review) reflecting on the republication of the daily Pogo strips, 1948-1960. An essential of their charm and personal significance is their language, and Crowley has it just right: The constancy of puns and wordplay; the subtle transmogrification [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}