Chris Chiaroscuro has an easy life because he’s killed his conscience by beating it into a gray, murky submission.
There’s no right.
There’s no wrong.
Nothing is black and white. Nothing.
It’s all gray.
Chris is in for a rude awakening someday, but until then, he can rephrase any misdemeanor or felony into terms of jargon and ethical-sounding compromise. With periodic bad grammar.
(Chiaroscuro.)
"[H]e's killed his conscience by beating it into a gray, murky submission."
That's gold, Julie.
I'm waiting for someone to get my movie reference in the cartoon…
That's easy. Shawshank Redemption.
My vote is for Ratatouille… "It's not stealing if no one wants it." Of for the moral compass of a rat!
A great movie, if you don't mind the idea of rats actually cooking in an eating establishment.
As a seminary graduate, I find that I just can't let the movie reference thing go. Yes, deniro got the most obvious reference, and perhaps the only reference Julie intended, but my training in literary and historical criticism of texts led me to the conclusion I came to in my comment above, which I feel is also correct.
Allow me to explain. The phrase "It's not stealing…" serves as the foundation for the first panel's take, and all of the subsequent panels' takes on the moral ambiguity and justifications offered by the primary character for his actions in the comic strip. My research (which included viewing the film and doing the requisite work with the bible of the modern world – Google search) led me to the discovery that this exact phrase is found in the movie Ratatouille, which Julie admits she had previously seen several months ago.
Further, it is my belief that this phrase inserted itself in Julie's subconscious at the time of her viewing said film in such a way that when the occasion arose for the creation of this strip, it would not be surprising that Julie would use this phrase as the starting point for her work. She was merely using, albeit not consciously, a source, let's call it the "R" source, as the basis for her work.
Therefore, based upon a literary and historical analysis of the comic strip, I must conclude that my response to the movie reference statement in Julie's comment above is in fact the only correct response possible, and this is true whether or not the actual author feels that this is the case.
Of course, like many biblical scholars who rely primarily upon literary and historical criticism, I could be full of bull%&%$.
Oy.
Can I Google it and find the right answer? Sorry for the delay in responding.
It's OK, Brett. Deniro got it right. Though I won't discount Will's comment which, as I told him, is astounding.
"Brooks was here… So was Red"
So good. Although those were written in the room in the halfway house, not the prison. ;o)