A small red-and-white box sled rests on a curved blue glass chute amid scattered ice-like fragments.

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Matt Groening

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Love is pictured as a thrilling dash over frozen ground that can abruptly capsize and trap you beneath it. The absurd final touch, nocturnal ice weasels arriving afterward, turns heartbreak into deadpan comedy: pain is followed not by rescue but by further strange indignities.

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