Eating One's Own Tail

Burning Sheep Productions · Postby **Burning Sheep Productions** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:37 am

Why if it isn't another zen joke, how... something.

Henohenomoheji · Postby **Henohenomoheji** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:23 pm

I like Ozys expression in the third panel, but I think it would have been better if the third and fourth panel expressions had switched places. IMHO of course.

erikbarrett · Postby **erikbarrett** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:24 pm

The mythical snake that eats it's own tail encircles the universe, and symbolizes the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. Actually, that makes the joke even better. The tail eating reference directly relates to the circularity of the whole statement. David's got style.

Foxchild · Postby **Foxchild** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:27 pm

Hmm... maybe it's sleep deprivation, maybe it's me just overlooking hings again, but i didn't catch that at first! That does add something to the strip, too. ... i still think the expressions should be flipped in the third and fourth panel, though.

Henohenomoheji · Postby **Henohenomoheji** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:36 pm

you must be sleep deprived. I said that, not you.

Zylo · Postby **Zylo** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 2:56 am

A snake eating it's own tail, a classic metaphor. What about 2 snakes eating each other? How could that work?

Dr. Dos · Postby **Dr. Dos** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 3:14 am

Woah, that's hard to imagine. I know they'd have to eat each other so they're in a O shape.... but I don't know what would happen...

Burning Sheep Productions · Postby **Burning Sheep Productions** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 11:17 am

Woah, I didn't see that. That makes it really good. Like that one where Ozy was using a sand castle as a metafore and Llewellyn burned it so it'd be glass and I thought that was really smart. This Simpson has some good stuff in him.

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