2013-07-11
Original: 2013-07-11 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with orange hair: "I turned 71 today. I'm not sure I got everything I could've out of it."
Panel 2:
Woman with orange hair: "It's a shame years and years and a year went by and I can't ever truly savor it up. In your experience of them."
Panel 3:
Woman with orange hair: "But for one year to live time to slow down, maybe even stop. So life to be like a zero-experiencing the mind of its every crevice and mining it every treasure."
Panel 4:
Woman with orange hair: "But time goes quickest when you're happy. The only place where time stands still... is an unlit dungeon."
Panel 5:
Man (with darker hair): "So you're saying I can either have a great happy life or a long, sad life?"
Woman with orange hair: "Pretty much."
Panel 6:
Man: "Now I'm depressed."
Woman with orange hair: "Lucky you."
Votey:
A small character in a speech bubble: "You suck."
Large smiling figure replies: "Thanks!"
Woman with orange hair: "I turned 71 today. I'm not sure I got everything I could've out of it."
Panel 2:
Woman with orange hair: "It's a shame years and years and a year went by and I can't ever truly savor it up. In your experience of them."
Panel 3:
Woman with orange hair: "But for one year to live time to slow down, maybe even stop. So life to be like a zero-experiencing the mind of its every crevice and mining it every treasure."
Panel 4:
Woman with orange hair: "But time goes quickest when you're happy. The only place where time stands still... is an unlit dungeon."
Panel 5:
Man (with darker hair): "So you're saying I can either have a great happy life or a long, sad life?"
Woman with orange hair: "Pretty much."
Panel 6:
Man: "Now I'm depressed."
Woman with orange hair: "Lucky you."
Votey:
A small character in a speech bubble: "You suck."
Large smiling figure replies: "Thanks!"
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A woman with orange hair philosophizes to a man about time and aging. She muses that she has turned 71 and isn't sure she got everything she could out of life, lamenting how the years slipped by without being savored. She suggests that to truly experience life and mine its every treasure, time would need to slow or stop. Then she observes the catch: time goes quickest when you're happy, and the only place where time truly stands still is somewhere miserable, like 'an unlit dungeon.' The man works out the implication and asks whether he can have either a great happy life or a long sad life. She replies, 'Pretty much.' He says, 'Now I'm depressed,' and she answers, 'Lucky you' — meaning his misery will make his life feel longer. In the votey aftercomic, a small figure says 'You suck.' to a large grinning figure, who cheerfully replies 'Thanks!' — happily oblivious, illustrating the comic's point that contented happiness makes time fly by.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.