secrets in comics

this is the strangest saturday night reading I've had in a while...
my stomach now feels funny.
and my sinues are sore.

but in some ways I felt "led" to it, just like how I was led in recent weeks to multiple verses and writings about rejoicing in the Lord. (there is really no doubt now that this is the command for this season!)

From Serge Tisseron: Family Secrets and Social Memory in Les aventures de Tintin:

"But why did I embark on such an analysis, with what ulterior motives, and what hopes?"

"Tournesol's deafness is a way of saying that no one is guilty of having hidden anything from him since it is he himself who doesn't hear anything! Such a prohibition can turn a child into
an idiot, but it can also make him become a "scientist," i.e., someone who chooses to devote his life to the only line of work where searching for the truth is not only a recognized right, but even a duty: the pursuit of scientific knowledge. This way the child who is forbidden to search for the family truth can still preserve the idealized image of his parents along with the quest for truth that motivates him."

"And, as in a fairy tale, everything around it was also frozen, yet with the secret and mad hope that, someday, everything might be set in motion again-history, the ideology that went along with it, and
the hidden secret."

there are much more i want to say on this topic, so i may vent more in a few days time.
and if you are curious enough but can't find a way access the full article, PM me~ :)