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Good Grief!

Tim Madigan ponders the philosophy of Peanuts.

“I’ve developed a new philosophy. I only dread one day at a time.”
– Charlie Brown

Long before I ever dreamt of being a professional (or even amateur) philosopher, my earliest goal was to be a cartoonist. When I was a child I loved to read ‘the funny pages’ and hoped to create an entire world of my own making akin to those I found in the comic strips. I even for a time published such a strip in my grammar school paper.

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