Harvey Pekar and Heather Roberson
2007 Villard Books
Apesar de não ter a qualidade de Joe Sacco ou de Art Spiegelman, identifiquei-me bastante com a personagem principal - a Heather. Ela estudou conflito, perdeu o cartao de crédito a dada altura, é distraida, pensativa mas safa-se bem quando é preciso e gosta de ir registando as coisas que lhe vão acontecendo.
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25 The idea of Balkans - only partly geographic. When the term came about int he 1800s, it was meant to describe ottoman holdings in Europe. Everything west of the Bosphorous strait, which connects the black sea to the mediterranean. As for what it continues to mean, that's more complex. Bosnia and Croatia haven't been Ottoman since 1878 when the Austro-Hungarian empire claimed them. Neither have Serbia, Romania, or Montenegro, which became independent, nor Bulgaria, which stayed under Russian influence, nor Greece. Only Macedonia and Albania remained under the Ottomans.
107 Well, I think that conflict is actually a good thing. While war tends to be a bad thing. Conflict is how we learn, you know, the struggle of world views. It's how we uncover problems in our own way of thinking. It would be better if we all agreed on everything, but what if we were all wrong?
115 We were plotting a conflict alolng a curve. Which in conflict modeling is always a curve up toward armed conflict and down towards a recession of hostilities and further down toward peace-building. - Why is it that the taking up of arms and the taking of life is signified by a rise in the curve rather than sinking? Putting it on a curve that rises along with the death toll just reinforces the idea that violence will bring resolution, because we look at it as a fever rising of tensions that will soon be let out.
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