A pun of impossibility

Also elegantly minimal. Yesterday’s (8/25) Wayno / Piraro Bizarro cartoon: An Etch A Sketch drawing of an Escher drawing; /ɛšǝ(r)/ Escher (rhotic for me, not for most BrE speakers) vs. /ɛčǝ/ Etch A, so primarily, fricative vs. affricate at same point of articulation (as in sheep vs. cheap or wish vs. witch) (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Wayno says there are only 2 — see this Page) [personal digression. Yes, no postings at all yesterday. I was in the grip of excruciatingly painful constipation starting at 5 am, eventually taking me to a long day in urgent care. With a treatment that misfired spectacularly in several ways and resulted in astounding literally shitty mess. Everywhere. Not yet cleared (though I now can bear to sit in a chair), and requiring many long hours of grueling cleanup, some of which I need to call in actual staff for. I imagine that you don’t want to hear more detail than that. But I did get to meet and chat with a long series of…