<story><title>Life After “Calvin and Hobbes”</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/the-mysteries-bill-watterson-book-review</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pbj1968</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.ph&amp;#x2F;CBMea&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.ph&amp;#x2F;CBMea&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Life After “Calvin and Hobbes”</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/the-mysteries-bill-watterson-book-review</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sdwr</author><text>&amp;gt; Goblins steal a mother’s child and replace it with a ravenous changeling. When the woman asks a neighbor for advice on how to get her child back, she is told to make the changeling laugh, because “when a changeling laughs, that’s the end of him.”&lt;p&gt;The older I get, the more I tend to see literal meaning instead of metaphor. This is pretty good advice for a mother dealing with PPD&amp;#x2F;derealization&amp;#x2F;cabin fever.</text></comment>