Guillaume-en-Egypte’s farewell

Poptronoic’s 2010 new year’s wishes are tinted with sadness,
since this image by Guillaume-en-Egypte that illustrates them will be the last by our cat freelancer.

Exceptionally, Guillaume wrote to us:

“With these wishes, stripped of any illusions (for non-Anglophones, ‘considering,’ is the point of irony one
adds to a summing up that is otherwise catastrophic, e.g. in Asphalt Jungle, Louis Calhern, says to Marilyn Monroe who has just snitched on him to the cops, “You did quite well, considering.”) a cycle ends: that of my collaboration with Poptronics. You have to leave the ball before the ball leaves you, and my final contribution, on the subject of the disaster that was Copenhagen constitutes an honorable lowering of the curtain.

“I might as well confess, with this summit of impotence and blindness, I’ve used up my store of arrows. Having shared them with the Pop team has been my good fortune, but when one’s heart is no longer in it, there’s no point pretending. My cat’s brain cannot hold at one and the same time the admission of failure based on an inexorable calendar, and the chance for salvation through a “world government” that no utopia will see established in a timely manner, as a result of this same calendar.

“So, humanity will have to forego my commentary as it
orchestrates its suicide, and we animals, our survival. To humans who’ll say, “But, you poor animals, are you armed to face the sinking ship of this complex world whose machinery you are not the masters of?” we say simply, “Are you?”