Studs Terkel I think a question should be asked once, Bob. But when we look a little closer perhaps a bit between the lines we can see that there's something being said or implied there that is religious. Oftentimes people I don't think have the idea that there's anything religious at all about Peanuts or some of the art they might happen to be looking at. They're designed to talk in a secular way about God. He says, "Where are the parables?" He said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God or what parable shall we use for it?" And this, in a way, is the same question that Bonhoeffer, it seems to me, is asking when he says, "How do we speak in a secular way about God?" Because this is what parables are designed to do. Of course it's a question that Jesus asked during his time. This is a question that's still being asked. Studs Terkel That was a fragment of our conversation, Bob, about a year ago and remarkable how it just connects with your work now, this this one, "The Parables of Peanuts." And this is your very theme, and you begin immediately speaking of this of this phenomenon, the art parable: how something said not directly, not head on, but indirectly has that much more impact.
For the first time we saw through this artist what it means to an individual human being, hitherto for it was a spectacle and something, and was a new revelation through this artist, indirectly, it made us look for a new answer to this horrible old phenomenon. Studs Terkel The reason I marked this because I thought - I don't know why Goya came to mind.
Art is a form of communication that forces us back on ourselves to want to know what the answer is that's hidden in this parable. Short And this is why art, in a sense, is like a parable, or a parable is an art form, in that the parable wasn't originally an illustration for something in order to make it perfectly clear because, as in the New Testament, you read over and over that Jesus said nothing without a parable, and yet these parables were obviously not always understood by the people who heard them. About a year ago Bob was saying this, if I remember, about Peanuts itself.
But, if we could recall, Bob's guest this morning, recall the theme that he was hitting at the moment, and the natural continuity is today. Harper and Row published that, and his new one has now just come out, "The Parable of Peanuts". You recall his book, "The Gospel According to Peanuts," his theological analysis, you might say, of Charles Schulz's remarkable strip comic strip.
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