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Sad Sack

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Sad Sack
who can’t do anything right. [Comics: “The Sad Sack” in Horn, 595–596]

Sad Sack
hapless and helpless soldier; resigned to his fate. [Comics: Horn, 595–596]

Sad Sack
whose travails reflect those of all soldiers. [Comics: Horn, 595–596]


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Every time our troubled protagonist Jean (hangdog sad sack Pavel Liska) gets to wondering if it's he or the world that's lost its marbles, the meat starts moving, so I guess it's representative of something -- probably, though, just the pleasure Svankmajer gets from manipulating animal innards.
Never mind that old nemesis called seasonal affective disorder (SAD) in which dark days and lack of sunshine turn you into a sad sack.
It is Sad Sack on garbage detail, with Georges Bataille the scatological eschatologist as his phantom doppelganger.
 
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