Two Buckets

Ta-dah!

This is...a thing! That I drew. It's a madduh-peeth. That's like a masterpiece. But, instead, it's a madduh-peeth.

There's a dog with no pupils and the body of a baby wearing a crunchy diaper...

and that's probably the most concrete and identifiable thing in this entire sketch...dang.

I've set the bar somewhere on this one.

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So, what this sketch is about is how--wait, hold on. I'm gonna logic this out.

Oh! I know! I've been reading Don Quixote lately and there is this part where Don Quixote goes up into the mountains and imposes naked madness and exile on himself.

Because that's what all great knights do when they are scorned by their lady loves. But then his squire Sancho Panza is like, "But Senor, you have not been scorned by your lady love. You have no reason to be naked and bang your head on rocks."

And Don Quixote says that this is an even better reason to bang his head on rocks! Because anyone can do that when they've been scorned by their true love, but "The great achievement is to lose one's reason for no reason."

And then the quote goes on, "and to let my lady know that if I can do this without cause, what would I do if there was cause?"

This is for Don Quixote and his ceaseless flow of terrible delusional advice.
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To lose one's reason for no reason. It certainly is a great achievement. But maybe not one worth achieving.

On the other hand, learning and understanding is all about perspective. And to gain perspective, to see something as a whole, you need a certain distance. You have to be able to see everything that the thing is and everything that it isn't. You need to be removed to a degree.

And so, if we want to understand REASON itself (probably a pretty important thing to know), then we can't just lose our reason for a good reasonable reason. Because then reason still has one of its slimy little tentacles on us. The only way to be totally removed from reason is to lose your reason for absolutely no reason. So has Don Quixote stumbled upon the method to achieve truest and purest knowledge??

But, on the other third hand attached to the base of my spine, you can't really understand anything without reason. Understanding and reason go together pretty tightly. It's like how the only way you could understand life is through death and then..well, there you go. Enjoy being smart, deadpants.

I can't really sort that out but the second half of the quote provides some relief.

If I drew this thing without even thinking about it, think about what I could make if I actually put some thought and purpose into it?!

Huh?...it probably wouldn't be too much better.