The Acme of Existence (formerly Daffy...)

[davemarc]

At 12:25 PM 6/27/96 -0400, Chris wrote:
>     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.)
>     
[snip]

Except that Wile E. finally wised up and went to court.  You can read all
about it in the title story of Ian Frazier's recent *Coyote Vs. Acme*.

davemarc