A Sparrow Named Jonathan Khryundelson

Overview

The title, like the plot of the cartoon, contains a pretty transparent — oak-level obvious, I'd say — nod to the work of one Richard Bach and his seagull. But Bach didn't quite think it through. His character is this laser-focused idealist-fighter-go-getter. A real stormy petrel of the revolution. Nonsense and pomposity. The cartoon shows how the "reality and dreams" mechanism actually works. Idealists are mostly numbskulls. Though that's precisely what makes them valuable.