Steven Millhauser, “Klassik Komix #1,“ in The Barnum Museum (1990).
Can you guess what klassik is getting a komix-treatment?
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Thursday, April 20, 2023
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Uh, TS Eliot? I should have ragged claws scuttling in the ocean floor “?
Otherwise, no—what klassic?
Moby-Dick?
It’s Prufrock. The story continues: “Panel 1. A city panorama at evening. The sky is red above a row of tall black buildings with yellow windows. Stretched over the tops of the buildings, in the sky, is the supine figure of a man with a white sheet up to his chin. A dim doctor in a surgical mask bends over him, holding against his mouth a white cloth. In one hand the doctor holds a bottle marked ETHER.”
I wish I’d known this story when I was teaching. I did though have Martin Rowson’s graphic-novel version of The Waste Land.
Really??? I was kidding with my klassic, but I was right???
Yes, Prufrock, with a nod to The Waste Land: “Those are pearls that were his eyes,” from The Tempest.
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