Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis

[steepholm]

Two things came together this morning.

1) I woke from a dream in which I'd been complaining to someone that I had all these great ideas for cartoons but didn't know how to draw.

2) I mused yet again on the curious fact that Paul Dirac and Cary Grant were at infant school together just round the corner from here, and that, living as I do in a road named after Dirac, I really ought to find a way to mark his 110th birthday this August.

Time to get on to Kate Beaton, methinks....

Comments

[sheenaghpugh]

"goes off to google Paul Dirac".....

[sheenaghpugh]

- oh, no wonder I'd not heard of him! But he wasn't as good-looking as our Archie, was he?

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

No, but he was quite important! The Dirac equation and antimatter are central planks (if you'll pardon the pun) in modern physics. And it's striking that the same ordinary primary school should have a future Nobel and Oscar winner sharing the playground.

I fear that Archie may have pushed poor Paul's face in the water fountain, despite being eighteen months younger. At which point he heard a bubbling that sounded something like this...

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

I thought Dirac would live forever. But 110? He must be dead. Weird and amazing guy.

Archie Leach never won an Oscar. But I agree with David Thompson: the finest motion picture actor ever.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Eleventy would indeed be a very respectable age for a physicist.

Leach did get an Oscar, albeit an honorary one, in 1970. I decided to count that, because - well, after all, Nobels are honorary too in a way.

[roselet.livejournal.com]

I'd draw the comics?

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

You're hired! I don't have any boring a hole in my head at this moment (though I clearly did in my dream), but ideas for cartoons do come at me on a regular basis, and I'm sad not to be able to give them form and being. Having said which, they almost always depend on some creaky pun or other. As an example, see this one, which I got my daughter to draw for me.

Oh, okay - I just remembered one, and it's a good example of a joke that just doesn't work using words. Someone walks into a room, and there are two people there. One has the head of Edgar Allen Poe, the other of Po from the Teletubbies.

"You two are looking very po-faced."

Still want the job?

[roselet.livejournal.com]

I can't access the entry you linked to me but I love puns, so that's no problem for me! Sounds like fun.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Sorry - I didn't realize I hadn't friended you! Fixed now. And thank you.