2011-10-13
Original: 2011-10-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with grey hair and white-framed glasses, holding an open green book, lectures to a small audience seated in front of him.
Lecturer: THIS STORY IS ABOUT THE SHIFT IN VALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL WEALTH VIS-A-VIS THE TRANSCENDENTAL IN A POST-PLAGUE EUROPE.
Panel 2:
Caption banner: 600 YEARS EARLIER...
A hooded medieval storyteller faces three children in simple medieval garb.
Storyteller: THIS STORY IS ABOUT HOW IF YOU DON'T PUT COINS OUT FOR ELVES, THEY'LL FUCK YOU IN THE NIGHT.
Votey:
Close-up of the grinning lecturer with white-framed glasses.
Lecturer: ANYWAY WELCOME TO THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT. EVERY DAY WE'LL POISON YOUR LOVE OF BOOKS A LITTLE MORE.
A man with grey hair and white-framed glasses, holding an open green book, lectures to a small audience seated in front of him.
Lecturer: THIS STORY IS ABOUT THE SHIFT IN VALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL WEALTH VIS-A-VIS THE TRANSCENDENTAL IN A POST-PLAGUE EUROPE.
Panel 2:
Caption banner: 600 YEARS EARLIER...
A hooded medieval storyteller faces three children in simple medieval garb.
Storyteller: THIS STORY IS ABOUT HOW IF YOU DON'T PUT COINS OUT FOR ELVES, THEY'LL FUCK YOU IN THE NIGHT.
Votey:
Close-up of the grinning lecturer with white-framed glasses.
Lecturer: ANYWAY WELCOME TO THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT. EVERY DAY WE'LL POISON YOUR LOVE OF BOOKS A LITTLE MORE.
Alt text
Two-panel comic. Panel 1: A grey-haired professor with white-framed glasses holds an open green book and lectures a seated audience: "This story is about the shift in valuation of individual wealth vis-a-vis the transcendental in a post-plague Europe." Panel 2: A banner reads "600 years earlier..." A hooded medieval storyteller addresses three children, telling them the same story in its original blunt form: "This story is about how if you don't put coins out for elves, they'll fuck you in the night." The joke contrasts dry academic over-interpretation with the crude folk-tale it descends from. Votey: A close-up of the grinning professor adding, "Anyway welcome to the English department. Every day we'll poison your love of books a little more."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.