At One Remove: Winter Wheat, Etc.

“As I was saying, Kershaw experiences things at one, or more removes (from the rest of us), and thus, in fact, though he seems just to be standing there looking whimsical or even sitting there wryly doodling . . . he is in fact doing the heavy lifting of experiencing for the rest of us! Hard work, indeed, so, thank you, Mark Addison Kershaw! Winter wheat, winter wheat! I’d never before noticed those tiny mittens and pom-pom hats, but there you are, Addison, at one remove or more, to point them out to me. ”—Elizabeth Boleman-Herring

Addison

By Mark Addison Kershaw

ATLANTA Georgia—(Weekly Hubris)—1 December 2022—Editor’s Note: There are, perhaps, some things you should know about Mark Addison Kershaw, but I don’t know them, either, so we have to go on what we can glean from his cartoons, which, frankly, is a lot! For one thing, he stands at several removes from most of us. (Note Well: at one remove/at several removes; Phrase: If you do or experience something at one remove, you do not do it or experience it yourself, but someone else does it or experiences it instead of you; [mainly British] She enjoyed his company and the excitement of feeling herself linked at one remove to London society. She can know the world only at several removes.) So, as I was saying, Kershaw experiences things at one, or more removes (from the rest of us), and thus, in fact, though he seems just to be standing there looking whimsical or even sitting there wryly doodling . . . he is in fact doing the heavy lifting of experiencing . . . for you and me! Hard work, indeed, so, thank you, Mark Addison Kershaw! Winter wheat, winter wheat! I’d never before noticed those tiny mittens and pom-pom hats, but there you are, Addison, at one remove or more, to point them out to me.