Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 20, 2018

I liked the “Bunny-Wunnie” stories so much, I hated to see them go in death by cats. Don’t give up so easily Snoopy!

Fun fact: Hermann Hesse was a cat lover. Poor Snoopy!

Ah, Herman Hesse. The author whose book inspired the name of a rock group.

Siddartha I suppose.

From cuddly, sentimental kiddie books to Noble Prize-winning literature. Snoopy is a complicated person.

I’d think Snoopy would do better with Moby Dick. It was a whale of a tale. And Snoopy could become a harpooner.

But what pets did Herman own?

Om.

Uggh. Hesse? I’ll take the Bunny-Wunnie books.

He won’t be getting any ‘love-letters’ from him…

Staying within species: Steppenwolf.

Maybe a little Herman Hesse will help Snoopy get his mind right, or maybe listening to that old rock group, The Mind Benders. Bend this Herman.

At almost 2 weeks this ‘Bunny-Wunnie’ story arc has to be one of the longer ones in Peanuts.

If I stopped reading books because there’s something I don’t like about the authors, then I would never read any books at all, and I don’t want that.

I think it woulda been deliciously ironic for Snoopy to pick up a Hemingway tome…

A quick Googling reveals that Hesse was a cat lover, too.

Oops.

Snoopy…Jack London…Call of the Wild and White Fang, buddy!

ROFL!

“For Mad Dogs Only.”

Herman Hesse – who too has a cat

Snoopy, if you refuse to read books by cat-owners, you’re going to find yourself missing out on tons of great literature.

So now Snoopy has switched to a little light reading to get away from the heavy philosophy of the bunny wunnies.

Why NOT Herman Hesse? You can only reread “The Great Gatsby” every so often…

So surprisingly, I don’t know much about Peanuts’ secondary characters, but I think this was a good sacrifice?

Just stay away from Kafka.

Aha! The literature of cat lovers is not rich enough.