live-forever
Original: live-forever on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (dark hair): I wouldn't want to live forever.
Panel 2:
Woman (long hair): First you'd have sex with two partners at once, then three, then four, and so on.
Panel 3:
Woman (dark hair): Sure, it'd be fun for a while, but eventually you'd hit the biggest number and it'd get pointless.
Panel 4:
Woman (long hair): Biggest number?
Panel 5:
Woman (dark hair): Yeah. The biggest number. 1.233.
Panel 6:
Woman (long hair): What about 1.234?
Woman (dark hair, now wild-eyed and excited): I WANT TO LIVE! I WANT TO LIIIIIVE!
Votey:
A hand-drawn graph in black ink. The vertical axis is labeled "pleasure" and the horizontal axis is labeled "sex partners." A curve rises steeply at first and then flattens as it approaches the top right. At the top of the curve, a red arrow points to it with the red label: "gravitational collapse".
Woman (dark hair): I wouldn't want to live forever.
Panel 2:
Woman (long hair): First you'd have sex with two partners at once, then three, then four, and so on.
Panel 3:
Woman (dark hair): Sure, it'd be fun for a while, but eventually you'd hit the biggest number and it'd get pointless.
Panel 4:
Woman (long hair): Biggest number?
Panel 5:
Woman (dark hair): Yeah. The biggest number. 1.233.
Panel 6:
Woman (long hair): What about 1.234?
Woman (dark hair, now wild-eyed and excited): I WANT TO LIVE! I WANT TO LIIIIIVE!
Votey:
A hand-drawn graph in black ink. The vertical axis is labeled "pleasure" and the horizontal axis is labeled "sex partners." A curve rises steeply at first and then flattens as it approaches the top right. At the top of the curve, a red arrow points to it with the red label: "gravitational collapse".
Alt text
A six-panel comic showing two women in conversation. Panel 1: one woman says she wouldn't want to live forever. Panel 2: the other woman argues that if you lived forever you'd have sex with more and more partners at once, two, then three, then four, and so on. Panel 3: the first woman counters that it would be fun for a while but eventually you'd hit the biggest number and it would get pointless. Panel 4: the second woman, puzzled, asks 'Biggest number?'. Panel 5: the first woman confidently states the biggest number is '1.233'. Panel 6: the second woman asks 'What about 1.234?', and the first woman's face transforms into wide-eyed mania as she screams 'I WANT TO LIVE! I WANT TO LIIIIIVE!', realizing there is no biggest number and thus infinite pleasure to chase. Votey (aftercomic): A hand-drawn line graph with 'pleasure' on the vertical axis and 'sex partners' on the horizontal axis. The curve rises and flattens toward the top right, where a red arrow labels the peak 'gravitational collapse'.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.