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>I was just wondering this, since I saw a '62 strip where Linus was
>looking out of the top floor of their house... I'd guess we've seen
>the most of CB's house, not just the exterior, but seeing we've seen
>his bedroom as well, particularly in the infamous "mr. sack" arc...
This is a nice question. I believe that Lynn Johnston, for example, has
a rather detailed mental picture of the fictional world of "For Better or
For Worse," and tries to stick closely to it when she draws the strip.
I don't recall Schulz ever claiming the same, and since his style is
consciously minimalist in many ways, I rather doubt that he ever fleshed
out similar details in his mind. So if one were to try to reconstruct
the geography of the Peanuts world, I think that contradictions would be
likely.
The location of Snoopy's doghouse is a case in point. When he was "saved
by a pizza," his doghouse was attached to the side of CB's house. But
it's
clear that Schulz did so simply because it was a necessary device to
realize
his idea of a story based on a Damoclean icicle. Usually Snoopy's
doghouse
is located in CB's backyard, but the distance between his doghouse and the
house is unclear. Once in a we actually get to see the distance between
the two and it appears quite short, but at other times the backyard seems
to be quite large.
By the way, we do get to see quite a bit of Linus's house when he rushes
around trying to find reading matter before his cold cereal gets soggy.
That's a hilarious strip, although I always wondered why he didn't find
his reading matter *before* pouring his milk...
--
Tim Chow tchow-at-alum-dot-mit-dot-edu
The range of our projectiles---even ... the artillery---however great,
will
never exceed four of those miles of which as many thousand separate us
from
the center of the earth. ---Galileo, Dialogues Concerning Two New
Sciences
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