Music and comic strips are two things that most people have encountered starting from a young age and still encounter on a regular basis as one gets older. More often then not the interactions between the listener of a song or the reader of a comic strip does so out of pleasure and occasionally a verse in the song or a panel in the comic strip will strike a nerve of curiosity and you begin to look for deeper meanings within them. Sometimes you will find a comic strip such as “Calvin and Hobbes” and a song such as “Time” from Pink Floyd two completely different forms of media, created by different people with different backgrounds and experiences, will have similar themes even though at first glance one would easily thing that the two have nothing in common.
“Calvin and Hobbes” and “Time” both have themes coercing through them that intertwine them together from Thomas Nagel’s theory of the absurd to Rosati’s theory about the Makropulos case (despite it not being mentioned in the analysis). Rosati’s theory from the Makropulus is that an extended existence could be appealing in some ways because it allows more time to do things one may have wanted to do, without dying with as many regrets. The lyric in the “Time” song that triggers an association with this theory is “You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today, And then one day you find ten years have got behind you, No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun..” With this line it seems as if when you are young you have all the time in the world to do something, and then soon you begin to realize that time is fleeting and you don’t have an eternity to do whatever you want, so you have to make your remaining days on earth count.
Though these two media forms, are on two different ends of the spectrum, it is easy to see that they parallel themselves in some ways.