Big Cat and Little Cat spend a lot of time asking the hard-hitting questions, like: “Do you think the view is better from Erika’s keyboard? Let’s wait to find out until she starts trying to proofread one of her poems.” Yup. When you’re a cat, everyday is Caturday and you have questions about everything.
Well, we have questions, too.
Puns!
What is the place of puns in your work? There are some who say they are the lowest form of humor. But their persistence in the greatest works of literature–most notably Shakespeare–suggests otherwise. Milton was also a great punster, though his puns were more serious and thus would be more likely to be called ‘poetic ambiguity.’ But nuts to that. When he calls Adam and Eve “our grand parents,” meaning both that they were older than our parents and that they were historically important, that’s a pun, damnit! Maybe puns would come up in stature a bit if these literary lions would admit they love puns. Instead, they skulk around corners muttering about how they love ‘poetic ambiguity.’ It’s a similar problem to how Margaret Atwood doesn’t embrace calling herself a science fiction writer.
Anyway, what do you think? Are you a glutton for punishment? What are some of your favorite puns? What are some of your favorite situations for puns?
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Two identical panels side by side each depict two cats, a large orange and a small grey sit side by side.
The orange looks down on the grey from an smilingly asks: “What do you call a tomboy when they grow up?”
The little grey is looking off to one side as he says: “I can already tell I’m going to hate this joke.”
“Give up,” asks the oblivious orange? “A Thomas Mann!”
“What did I ever do to you,” the grey inquires of the orange, or perhaps of the unfairness of the universe itself.
