2012-01-02
Original: 2012-01-02 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
An older woman with glasses and curly brown hair, wearing a red sweater, reads aloud from a green book to a small child sitting beside her.
Woman (reading): "And the ugly duckling turned out to be a beautiful swan. Of course, this was temporary, and the inexorable passage of time absconded with her beauty and her friends, leaving her alone in a bell jar, slowly turning carbonic with her cynicism, and septic with her failed dreams."
The child looks unhappy.
Caption (below panel): Nobody liked Sylvia Plath's book of fables.
Votey:
Close-up of the same woman with glasses.
Woman: "Also, sleeping beauty was happier before the kiss."
An older woman with glasses and curly brown hair, wearing a red sweater, reads aloud from a green book to a small child sitting beside her.
Woman (reading): "And the ugly duckling turned out to be a beautiful swan. Of course, this was temporary, and the inexorable passage of time absconded with her beauty and her friends, leaving her alone in a bell jar, slowly turning carbonic with her cynicism, and septic with her failed dreams."
The child looks unhappy.
Caption (below panel): Nobody liked Sylvia Plath's book of fables.
Votey:
Close-up of the same woman with glasses.
Woman: "Also, sleeping beauty was happier before the kiss."
Alt text
An older woman in glasses and a red sweater reads from a green book to a glum-looking child beside her. Her speech bubble continues a fairy tale darkly: "And the ugly duckling turned out to be a beautiful swan. Of course, this was temporary, and the inexorable passage of time absconded with her beauty and her friends, leaving her alone in a bell jar, slowly turning carbonic with her cynicism, and septic with her failed dreams." The caption reads: "Nobody liked Sylvia Plath's book of fables." The bell-jar reference nods to Plath's novel. Votey: a close-up of the same woman adding, "Also, sleeping beauty was happier before the kiss."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.