"Little Nemo in Slumberland" dated November 28, 1909:
Transcript of Tweets by @LittleNemo1905 (JANUARY 11, 2021):
This is a rather uninspired and uninteresting strip… - 1/12
The idea of "cold in the waking world = cold in Slumberland/dreamscape" is a bit tiresome at this point (at best, uninventive) and four panels in a row of slipping isn't all that entertaining. - 2/12
The frozen statue of the boys huddled together is (admittedly) pretty humourous, but is the payoff worth the journey? I'm not so sure. - 3/12
I do wonder though how they will get out of this predicament… do they need to float along, frozen in the dreamscape, for three months until the sun melts them? - 4/12
Narratively, this whole thing is Flip's fault… his disdain for Doctor Pill and the Dancing Missionary is what causes the boys to strike out on their own. - 5/12
Was DM's response about the time of night really that outlandish given where they are? I don't think so… - 6/12
In fact, I read it in a very transactional way… - 7/12
Flip can be forgiven for thinking the response ludicrous if he is unaware of what Nemo knows to be true; that the nighttime lasts three months in the Northern Arctic. - 8/12
Once Flip learns this truth, he should (if he's being a good transactional reader) renegotiate the meaning he's made of the DM's response and realize that far from being outlandish, it is quite clever. - 9/12
He refuses to do that and blazes forward with his interpretation that was based on assumptions about the DM and a lack knowledge… for this reason, the boys find themselves in hot… I mean, cold… water. - 10/12
Had he renegotiated the meaning, maybe he could have settled down enough to see that the boys are better off with DM and DP than they are on their own… had Flip takes a transactional approach (as we do) maybe things would've been different… - 11/12
This is my reading of "Little Nemo in Slumberland" #216. What's yours? - 12/12
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