18.422 Boston Charlie

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   [1] From: "Dr. Donald J. Weinshank" <weinshan_at_cse.msu.edu> (22)
         Subject: FW: Last (?) word about Pogo citation

   [2] From: Pat Galloway <galloway_at_ischool.utexas.edu> (2)
         Subject: Re: 18.416 "Deck us all with Boston Charlie"!

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         Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:08:48 +0000
         From: "Dr. Donald J. Weinshank" <weinshan_at_cse.msu.edu>
         Subject: FW: Last (?) word about Pogo citation

A colleague, Dan Mishkin (dmishkin_at_comcast.net), who is a
professional in the area of cartoons and also a longtime
Pogo admirer, sent me the following in response to the
earlier postings on the subject.

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If you want to put the lingering doubts of your correspondents to rest, you
can let them know that they're correct to identify the later use of the line
as a quotation (distillation, actually) of something that was said earlier;
but that the earlier quotation is from Kelly himself and not from one of the
characters in the strip. The original appeared in the introduction to the
collection "The Pogo Papers":

"There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things
which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve
then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blasts on
tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may
be us."
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         Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:11:03 +0000
         From: Pat Galloway <galloway_at_ischool.utexas.edu>
         Subject: Re: 18.416 "Deck us all with Boston Charlie"!

Oh, Deck us all, my very favorite!
Pat Galloway
Received on Mon Dec 13 2004 - 02:42:56 EST