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Cartoons Land of Imagination     Just as Moses climbed Mount Sinai to receive the ten commands, the side by side(p) are the ten laws that govern my most interesting place. 1. Any bodysuspended in space will remain in space until do aware of its situation. 2.Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenessuddenly. 3. Any body red ink through solid matter will leave a perforationconforming to its perimeter. 4. The time required for an object to fall twentystories is greater than or pertain to the time it takes for whoever knocked it offthe ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken. 5.All principles of gravity are negated by fear. 6. As speed increases, objects give notice be in several places at once. 7. Certain bodies can pass through solidwalls painted to resemble tunnel entrances others cannot. 8. Any violentrearrangement of feline matter is impermanent. 9. Everything falls faster thanan anvil. 10. Fo r every vengeance there is an equal and opposite revengeance.These laws are the laws of the Cartoon Universe.     The Cartoon Universe is not a conspicuous substance, rather an explorationinto imagination. It is this facet that makes this universe more appealing thanour own. One is free to create and manipulate not only the physical actions ofa character, nevertheless the mental behavior as well. If my recollection serves mecorrect, aside from hypnosis, there is nowhere else that this is possible. Inthe cartoon world, "anything goes." There are no boundaries to which one isconfined. With a myopic ingenuity and imagination one can create a place orbeing that has never existed before.     Scribble, scribble, squeak, squeak, the colored pencils glideeffortlessly over the duster canvas. A dab of golden yellow, a speck of sky luscious.Within several minutes I have create my ideal woman. Blond hair, blue eyes,wearing a tight fitting bla ck mini-skirt. Perfect in appearance and poise, andnothing but words of encouragement and love linger in her black caption. For araging hormonal man of eighteen, this scenario is a dream come true. Cartoons,however are not just a group of characters jumping off cliffs, and getting shotout of cannons. On the contrary, cartoons often have incredible meaning.     With the recent presidential elections, many cartoons have been inventedrepresenting the two current candidates flyer Clinton and Bob Dole. Politicalsatire, although often humorous, is meant to convey a message to the reader.The cartoonist has cleverly transposed his own thoughts, into that of hischaracters. Many environmental issues have been tackled as well.