peanuts

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Why me?", then a voice answers "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

Alecto_ what do you think would happen if people found out about you? Your abilities, your life, Mearth__ super 8 films, those powers of yours_ how would they react?___ don__ know,_ said Alecto, __ut ordinary people like a show, especially when it__ a disturbing one. They enjoy seeing misery_ probably because it allows them to pretend that they themselves are not so miserable, too. Also, they would probably find out about you, how you know about Personifications, how you saw the films_ they would put us in cages and throw peanuts at us, I guess.___ll joking aside, Alecto.___ho is joking, Mandy Valems?

My mind reels with sarcastic replies!

I love those dark moments in Peanuts. I love that they're in there, that Charles Schulz put the sad lonely bits of himself into the comic. I love the silliness too, the dancing Snoopy strips. The little boy Rerun drawing "basement" comics about Tarzan fighting Daffy Duck in a helicopter. Those are the bits that keep me reading. The funny parts! The fun parts. The silly bits that don't make any sense. And when I get to the sad lonely Peppermint Patty standing in a field wondering why nobody shook hands and said "good game," well, it works because that's not all she was. I try to think that way about everything. That's the kind of person I want to be.