“Some Dancer”

* DANCER:
"A dance to summer.
In this dance I symbolize the restlessness of new seasons.
The desire to escape from boredom–
From responsibility–
From cool men–
From all the inadequate pleasures.
The desire to lift oneself out of the predictable–
And never have to return."

Little KID, watches Dancer fly away:

"Some dancer."

––Jules Feiffer, 1929 – 2025

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From an interview w/ Feiffer at 95 years old, NPR:

"Among other things, I'm suffering from acute macular degeneration.
I have to work big, big, big, big, big to see what I'm doing....
I started fooling both with drawing and text, which is drawn on 18-by-24 sheets of watercolor paper.

"But I'm happier now than I ever have been, doing the work I love and having a wife I'm crazy about and living this wonderful life to the end, where I can say things and do things, and my work has been accepted so that I can get away with it.
Getting away with it is a very important deal."
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* Jules Feiffer. A Dance to Summer, 1964. Published in The Village Voice, June 25, 1964. Library of Congress

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