>>116573543But to clean the roof would imply that Heathcliff’s feat have some sort of substance with which to dirty the roof with. He has of course walked the ground before. But the old customs are now being called into question. Defied, even.
Notice the shadow beneath Heathcliff. How is that shadow there? Shadows are merely projections created by light being cast upon an object. Light has a source. Where is the light source? Is it from the sun, shining from the window? Some mysterious source from below? Religious texts associate the light with the above. It is what Heaven is. The dimension of light, of good. Below is the darkness, Hell. In his writing Dante’s Inferno, Dante describes at many points that Hell was devoid of light. Yet in the strip, it would seem the light comes from below. This is something mind boggling, something fundamentally wrong. Light coming from the below. Shadows cast upon the ceiling. The cat is walking on the ceiling. Heathcliff. The feline who defies the fundamental concepts of physics. He cares not for gravity, nor societal expectation, nor religious theology. He walks on the ceiling. He casts a shadow on a surface above. He does this despite law and expectation.
This comic has changed my perception on the world around me. It has caused me to question things more than ever. I now know that if I see a person walking on the ceiling, I will not think it odd. I will think of Heathcliff, the cat who walked on the ceiling, and realize that I do not know everything about this universe. But I have come to know just one thing from this strip.
There is no law. There is only Heathcliff.
