04/08/02
On Sight, Out of Mind
At one point in the careers of Tweety and Sylvester, a dog entered into the picture. The dog, as I recall, took it upon himself to protect Tweety, and so the perennial war between dogs and cats took as its immediate justification a battle over a bird. Part of Sylvester’s strategy was to frame the dog for offenses that would lead to his being ejected from the house when their owner’s tapping foot signaled a cease-fire. Of course, the owner fell for the deception every time… until she caught Sylvester yellow-tongued, so to speak.
This essay has been published in Just Thinking: Volume I, 10/29/01–10/21/02 and is available in Confidence Place: The Timshel Arts Store.
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