Thursday’s Zits:
If it’s fiction, it almost surely doesn’t have a bibliography. If it’s a non-fiction book, it doesn’t necessarily have a bibliography, or even usable references sprinkled somewhere in the text (irritating but true, some publishers are set against references in books meant for a popular audience, collections of essayistic “thought pieces” often lack references, and some authors are lazy). But if it has a bibliography, it’s a serious piece of non-fiction: a research report or survey, if it’s short, and yes, a book if it’s longer.
Unless you and your mom share an academic interest, a bibliography in a note from her moves it from ordinary parent-child communication into some strange territory.
October 24, 2012 at 9:23 pm |
From Chris Waigl in Facebook:
October 25, 2012 at 6:28 am |
I would suspect that the bibliography is a reference list, citing the previous notes in which she made the same request. Teenage boys (I think more than girls) are stereotypically deaf to maternal requests. I spent years trying to evade my assigned tasks of taking the trash barrels out for the weekly pick-up and returning them later, and that of sweeping the inside stairs (we lived on the second floor of a two-family house), a job I particularly disliked.
October 25, 2012 at 6:33 am |
A good idea, supported by the fact that Jeremy’s deafness to his mother’s requests is a recurrent theme in the strip.