Travelling to the cartoon diner, Freddie was concerned that he was two-dimensional. The twin-reality-folded figures of Wilbur and Freckles may find his appearance humorous and take vent to laugh at his flattened-frightened form. He was a pencil sketch after all, fleshed out with clever contour shading and a splash of pastel to highlight his good-sides. And he was right.
Extract from Shock Fiction Tales: Odes to Death, Decay, Eternal Conflict and the Exaltation of the Quest for the Dream, American or Otherwise by Charles Lidgard © 2004
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