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[–]Apple_Cider 10 points11 points ago

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At least he kept one for his lapel.

[–]acog 7 points8 points ago

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Gotta love Shel Silverstein. I remember reading The Giving Tree and being stunned. It looked like a children's book, it read like a children's book, but in the end it had this enormous emotional impact. The dissonance between what his work looks like but what it actually says is amazing.

[–]IGottaFindBubba 4 points5 points ago

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it's only depressing because it's the truth.

[–]alman3007 2 points3 points ago

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I have a feeling there is some deep meaning to this that I am not getting.

[–]sa_neasy 3 points4 points ago

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The flowers on his head are symbolic for new ideas and being unique. He is laughed by others and cuts his hair out of self-consciousness.

[–]whininghippo 4 points5 points ago

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And by doing so, he becomes one of the mindless condescending people he was just laughed at by. (I assume this because his haircut is now identical to theirs, and he more or less just looks like them.)

[–]piratemot 0 points1 point ago

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But the last one he keeps in his suit

[–]voiceofdissent 0 points1 point ago

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Nostalgia is for people who would rather remember good times than instantiate them.

[–]DaveManchester 0 points1 point ago

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Is there a poster of this I can buy?

[–]perspectivism 0 points1 point ago

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