Re: Johnny Hart - RIP


"Robin" <rnetherton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Apr 12, 8:43 am, "Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kim...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
"Robin" <rnether...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

Setting aside the issue of just who would recognize the words, note
that Hart was careful to put a label at the start of the strip: "The
Seven Last 'Words' of Jesus."

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So if there were any readers who wouldn't have recognized the words on
their own, they'd still know what they were reading.

Assuming they read the Christian Bible and knew what it meant. Having
never
read it, I wouldn't have recognized it.

If he published this is some church magazine, he could assume such about
his
readership. In a nationally syndicated comic strip, it presumes much to
think that everyone would get such a reference.

Um, being Jewish myself, I haven't read much of the Christian Bible
either, and I certainly couldn't have quoted you the Seven Last Words
from any of the Gospels. But I've certainly heard of Jesus, and I
daresay that the name is at least vaguely familiar to you and 99.9% of
Hart's readership. And since Hart was careful enough to label the
strip as "The Seven Last Words of Jesus," I think it's fair to expect
that most people reading it, even if they wouldn't recognize the words
themselves, would get the point that they were reading something
purported to be the last words of Jesus.

Of course they might not know that the words came from the Christian
bible, as opposed to being something Hart made up. But that wasn't my
point.

This was in answer to PBS's comment that Hart's chief mistake was
assuming that his readers would recognize that these were Jesus' last
words. I merely pointed out that Hart didn't make that assumption; he
labeled the strip just so *everyone* would know they were reading
Jesus' last words.

Which is really beside the point, because stated out of context -- as they
are in the strip in question -- they are easy to misconstrue for those of us
who know little of the Christian Bible.


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