2015-01-29
Original: 2015-01-29 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Dad: Don't understand the idea of dying.
Dad: How can a body die in a meaningful way? A body isn't a thing, like a quark or a lepton. A body isn't a unity.
Panel 2:
Dad: It's just velocity, position, mass, just a relationship between things. A *relationship*.
Panel 3:
Dad: What happens to relationships between things when they die?
Child (off to the side): Too try to revive them with kids.
Votey:
[A loose, scribbly hand-drawn sketch of a face. Large hand-lettered text reads "BOOM!"]
Dad: Don't understand the idea of dying.
Dad: How can a body die in a meaningful way? A body isn't a thing, like a quark or a lepton. A body isn't a unity.
Panel 2:
Dad: It's just velocity, position, mass, just a relationship between things. A *relationship*.
Panel 3:
Dad: What happens to relationships between things when they die?
Child (off to the side): Too try to revive them with kids.
Votey:
[A loose, scribbly hand-drawn sketch of a face. Large hand-lettered text reads "BOOM!"]
Alt text
Three-panel comic. In each panel a cartoon dad, gesturing with one hand, delivers an increasingly abstract monologue about death. He says he doesn't understand the idea of dying, arguing that a body isn't a fundamental 'thing' like a quark or lepton and so isn't a unity; it's just velocity, position, and mass, a relationship between things. In the final panel he asks what happens to relationships when things die, while a small figure to the side gives a deadpan reply about trying to revive them with kids. The aftercomic (votey) is a rough, scribbly hand-drawn sketch of a face with the large hand-lettered word 'BOOM!' across it.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.