2014-12-04
Original: 2014-12-04 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (man): When I was young, I was generic.
Panel 2 (man): I didn't have lots of opinions or knowledge. I just felt things. I cared about love and friends and starry nights!
Panel 3 (man): The older I get, the more specific I get. I'm rotten with specificity. I'm locked into a million particular views.
Panel 4 (man): I have definite opinions on how green beans should be cooked!
Panel 5 (man): I used to just enjoy a glass of wine. Now I can't without knowing what it cost and where it came from and who said it was good and what kind of grape it was and if I gained anything! Now! But I can't stop the opinions are LODGED!
Panel 6 (a second man): Yeah... hey, how about we go frolic on the beach?
Panel 7 (first man): I really prefer ROISTERING to FROLICKING.
Votey:
(The first man's face in close-up, an unsettling grin, speech from off-panel:) WHAT YOU REALLY WANT IS GAMBOLING.
Panel 2 (man): I didn't have lots of opinions or knowledge. I just felt things. I cared about love and friends and starry nights!
Panel 3 (man): The older I get, the more specific I get. I'm rotten with specificity. I'm locked into a million particular views.
Panel 4 (man): I have definite opinions on how green beans should be cooked!
Panel 5 (man): I used to just enjoy a glass of wine. Now I can't without knowing what it cost and where it came from and who said it was good and what kind of grape it was and if I gained anything! Now! But I can't stop the opinions are LODGED!
Panel 6 (a second man): Yeah... hey, how about we go frolic on the beach?
Panel 7 (first man): I really prefer ROISTERING to FROLICKING.
Votey:
(The first man's face in close-up, an unsettling grin, speech from off-panel:) WHAT YOU REALLY WANT IS GAMBOLING.
Alt text
A seven-panel comic. An older bald man laments how aging has made him hyper-specific. Panel 1: "When I was young, I was generic." Panel 2: "I didn't have lots of opinions or knowledge. I just felt things. I cared about love and friends and starry nights!" Panel 3: "The older I get, the more specific I get. I'm rotten with specificity. I'm locked into a million particular views." Panel 4: "I have definite opinions on how green beans should be cooked!" Panel 5: a long rant—"I used to just enjoy a glass of wine. Now I can't without knowing what it cost and where it came from and who said it was good and what kind of grape it was and if I gained anything! Now! But I can't stop the opinions are LODGED!" Panel 6: a second man offers, "Yeah... hey, how about we go frolic on the beach?" Panel 7: the man insists, "I really prefer ROISTERING to FROLICKING," hair-splitting between two near-synonyms. Votey: an extreme close-up of the man's face wearing a wide, slightly unhinged grin, while an off-panel voice corrects him: "WHAT YOU REALLY WANT IS GAMBOLING."—piling on yet a third synonym for the same activity.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.