2012-10-09

A four-panel comic. A red-haired man and a dark-haired woman talk in a dimly lit room. Panel 1: He asks, "Are you familiar with Zeno's paradox?" She says, "No." Panel 2: She explains, "I tried reading it but before I could get to the end, I had to get halfway to the end." Panel 3: She continues, increasingly worked up, "And before I could get from there to the end, I had to read half the remaining portion. Then half that and half that! How can I read it all if there are infinite points to reach first?!" Panel 4: He says, "I see... Are you familiar with Plato's metaphor of the cave?" She replies, eyes downcast, "Only the dim outlines." The joke turns on the cave allegory's prisoners seeing only dim shadows. Votey: A cartoon stone bust labeled PLATO grins and shouts, "Heyooooo!" celebrating the pun.