by | October 13, 2014 · 7:46 am

The Plague’s the Thing

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9 responses to “The Plague’s the Thing”

  1. Zilla's avatar Zilla of the Resistance
    October 13, 2014 at 8:13 am

    Reblogged this on Femininican and commented:
    Perfect.

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  2. chrissythehyphenated's avatar chrissythehyphenated
    October 13, 2014 at 12:51 pm

    That’s E.A. Poe and a crow, right? So reference to “never more”?

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    • GruntOfMonteCristo's avatar GruntOfMonteCristo
      October 13, 2014 at 2:02 pm

      Oh, I know! You caught me on the mixed reference. I agonized over that last night, but decided to leave the title (bastardization of Hamlet) along with the image of Poe. Plague, the thing that Obama is ignoring to his peril, is really a ref to Poe’s other story: “The Masque of the Red Death.” The Hamletesque title is problematic, but it says the right thing, I think. Poe’s “Masque” is the real theme of the graphic. The raven is just to help us identify Poe, though the extra link to “Nevermore” is also problematic.

      You got me. I actually thought Bob would be the one to give me crap about that. 😉

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