2013-09-13

A single-panel SMBC comic with a top caption reading "A GOOD GRASP OF LITERATURE IS VALUABLE IN ANY PROFESSION." A gray-haired woman in glasses, seen from behind, asks a doctor, "How did my husband's surgery go?" The doctor, a man in a white coat over green scrubs wearing dark sunglasses, replies, "Well, the good news is that all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" -- quoting Edgar Allan Poe instead of answering. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the doctor's sunglasses-wearing face: the woman says "So..." and the doctor continues, "If I may quote The Raven...", obliviously launching into more Poe instead of giving a real medical update.