Daffy Duck and the Upanishads--STOP ME

[ckaratnytsky at nypl.org]

     Deep in her mind-meld of Craig Clark's treatise on V. (and Skip 
     Wolfe's and Brian McCary's and Tom Evans'), Chris looks up and reads 
     this from Richard Romeo (Oh! Romeo):

     [snip]

     >the truest symbol of existential man-Wile E. Coyote (Super-Genius)
     
     YES!
     
     The self-wounding, mechanically-inept, gravity-bound Wile E. 
     (Carnivorous Vulgaris), is perpetually placed at the mercy of the evil 
     Them (the ubiquitous corporate monster, Acme) in his inevitably 
     fruitless search for, what, a day's meal? (Get real:  A meal?  Outta 
     that skinny, tough-looking smart-ass, Road Runner?)  But, anyway, yes, 
     yes, Wile E. alternates between cunning and haplessness and comes out 
     somewhere in between as the animated embodiment of existential Sam 
     Beckett's meditation:  "Try.  Fail.  Try again.  Fail better."  (Or 
     something like that.)
     
     We watch as RR makes a move to establish himself as the resident 
     cartoon sage of the p-list.  A bold first step:  Bob Dole as Simon Bar 
     Sinister. (Nifty!)  And then, wow, new vistas into the wasteland of 
     TSE are opened with a riff on the Underdog quest.
     
     Keep drinking, Richard, I love it!  It makes complete sense (if not 
     complete sentences) to me.
     
     Back to contemplating encoded V.,
     
     Chris