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NO PLACE TO HIDE
Since: Jul, 2009
NO PLACE TO HIDE
May 7th 2010 at 7:59:26 PM
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- Also, Marcie frequently calls Peppermint Patty "sir" in the first strips in which they met: though Schulz had yet to name Marcie's character anything. There's a weeks-long sequence in which she becomes "Marcie" (taking place at two nearby, gender-segregated camps). Charlie Brown—sent home as a "troublemaker" due to his name being mentioned at the girls' camp during a ruckus—isn't certain whether he's more ecstatic about being able to leave camp early, or the fact the girls talked about him. Peppermint Patty has an emotional meltdown—after seeing The Little Red-Haired Girl, realizing why Charlie Brown is so infatuated with her—and feeling "funny-looking" instead, she fears no one will ever love her. ("She's so pretty she sparkles. I don't sparkle; I'm a mud fence.") Attempting to console Patty, Linus kisses her; in language echoing his role as the theologian, he expounds on the meaning of a clich? "Someday, someone will look at you and say, 'Behold! A great beauty.'" As a child (and today) I feel this is one of Peanuts' greatest extended stories (having recently reread it, I'm aware how much it meant to me; from repeated readings—circa age 10—it's practically engraved on my brain).
Because I have no idea how it relates to the trope
Okay folks.
"Nunnery" was NOT a "euphemism" (do people really understand what that term means?) for a brothel. It WAS a term used in the cant of the London underworld in Shakespeare's day to mean "brothel". However, there really is no reason why the Prince of Denmark would suddenly start speaking in London underworld cant. When Hamlet says "nunnery" he probably just means "nunnery".