2014-12-23
Original: 2014-12-23 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with light hair: There's a story that someone bet Ernest Hemingway that he couldn't tell a complete story in six words. So Hemingway wrote down "For sale: baby shoes. Never worn."
Panel 2:
Woman with dark hair: It's supposed to be impressive because it gets such a big emotional response so rapidly.
Panel 3:
Woman with dark hair: But what if we're just interpreting it wrong? Like maybe he was thinking "Imagine there's this baby born with rocket-feet, and everybody loves the baby and the family and they're all famous."
Panel 4:
Woman with light hair: If they're rich, why do they sell the shoes?
Woman with dark hair: Because they're major collector's items! They're the only shoes rocket-baby was ever going to wear.
Panel 5:
Woman with dark hair: So even though they're famous and rich, they are still so entrenched in malice that they'd sell their own baby's shoes for money they don't need.
Panel 6:
Woman with light hair (smiling):
Panel 7:
Woman with light hair: Hemingway was so deep.
Woman with dark hair: So deep.
Votey:
Handwritten text: Before you email: Yes, the story is apocryphal. Here's an armadillo:
(A drawing of an armadillo.)
Woman with light hair: There's a story that someone bet Ernest Hemingway that he couldn't tell a complete story in six words. So Hemingway wrote down "For sale: baby shoes. Never worn."
Panel 2:
Woman with dark hair: It's supposed to be impressive because it gets such a big emotional response so rapidly.
Panel 3:
Woman with dark hair: But what if we're just interpreting it wrong? Like maybe he was thinking "Imagine there's this baby born with rocket-feet, and everybody loves the baby and the family and they're all famous."
Panel 4:
Woman with light hair: If they're rich, why do they sell the shoes?
Woman with dark hair: Because they're major collector's items! They're the only shoes rocket-baby was ever going to wear.
Panel 5:
Woman with dark hair: So even though they're famous and rich, they are still so entrenched in malice that they'd sell their own baby's shoes for money they don't need.
Panel 6:
Woman with light hair (smiling):
Panel 7:
Woman with light hair: Hemingway was so deep.
Woman with dark hair: So deep.
Votey:
Handwritten text: Before you email: Yes, the story is apocryphal. Here's an armadillo:
(A drawing of an armadillo.)
Alt text
A seven-panel comic, two women talking. The first (light hair) explains the famous story that Hemingway was bet he couldn't write a complete story in six words and wrote "For sale: baby shoes. Never worn." The second woman (dark hair) notes it's impressive for the big emotional response it gets, then proposes they might be "interpreting it wrong": maybe Hemingway imagined a baby born with rocket-feet whose whole famous, beloved family is rich. The light-haired woman asks why rich people would sell the shoes; the dark-haired woman says the shoes are major collector's items, the only ones rocket-baby would ever wear, and concludes the family must be so entrenched in malice that they'd sell their own baby's shoes for money they don't need. The two women smile and agree, "Hemingway was so deep." "So deep." Votey: a single panel with handwritten text reading "Before you email: Yes, the story is apocryphal. Here's an armadillo:" beneath which is a simple line drawing of an armadillo.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.