But then Vladek muses he could be telling the complete truth and what the hell would it matter anyway
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It wouldn't make his being here any more or less senseless than anyone else
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And you see his face shift back and forth between mouse and cat
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
I pulled my copy and opened to the page in II where Art is discussing what species to draw the French as with his French wife.
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Replying to @ChrisRywalt @nberlat
Yeah I like that at every point he's stressing his visual metaphor to the breaking point
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
Like when the Jews are trying to pass as Polish and put on pig masks. As if the difference is that obvious. Only maybe it was back then.
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That was a time when you could tell by sight what village someone came from, so maybe it was almost pigs and mice.
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Replying to @ChrisRywalt @nberlat
Well that was the point, that they aren't literal masks -- the Nazi imagery implies it's that obvious a difference but irl it isn't
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He's borrowing the Nazi cartoon idea of races as animals to show that the way it divides the world is grotesque and false
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Hence at the end of the story you have the supposed impossibility of a cat/mouse marriage
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And the kids drawn as a weird cartoon hybrid of mouse and cat
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
Flipping through trying to find that but failing. Did find the French frog and the Romani rendered as a moth, though.
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Not sure Art thought the moth through as much as he might have, but twenty years ago we weren't thinking "gypsy" was a slur.
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