Schulz recycles

Ach! I was doing a little research, and discovered that the Schulz prose story was really not original to The World’s Shortest Stories of Love and Death, as I suggested in this earlier post. Rather, it was an edited-down-for-length version of the story that Snoopy is seen writing in this May 7th, 1989 strip which I had forgotten:

Peanuts
…with this added at the end:

He sat down to write a bestseller. “It was a dark and stormy night….”

So Schulz didn’t really come up with a new prose story for the book. He just plagiarized the writings of a dog! How dare he! The gall! I’ll bet that pooch will have his lawyers on him lickety-…

Oh… wait. Further research here tells me that Snoopy was just a cartoon fictional dog, a figment of Schulz’s imagination, and thus doesn’t have legal stance to sue him. At least not in most states.

Never mind.

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