Homer Lost in Timespace

[Ben Greenberg]

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        delurking for a moment....
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        We must remember the episode where Bart saves Burns' life and Hom=
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        sends that sarcastic letter recognizing Burns' non-gratitude.  An=
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        at the end of the episode Marge is searching for a moral to the s=
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        and running through the usual litany of clich=E9s, when Lisa says=

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        "But maybe there is no moral"
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        and Homer sums up
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        "Yeah, it's just a bunch of stuff that happened".
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        Ben

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Subject: Homer Lost in Timespace
Author:  LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU at Internet
Date:    10/29/96 5:11 PM


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Andrew Walser comments:
"What if we considered the whole thing a version of the allegory of the =

cave in Plato's REPUBLIC?  Homer the philosopher ascends from the =

dimness of two-dimensionality to discover new objects of love . . .
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Instead of eternal truths, of course, he finds angel-food breasts and =

pudendal brownies -- but who wants to turn a Simpson into a Socrates?"
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The whole thing is summed up in Homer's immortal phrase: =

"Mmmmm.  Erotic cakes!"
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But actually, we'd be advised to recall Homer's regret at being in warp o=
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spacetime locus: "If only I'd read that book by that wheelchair guy!"
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Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)