and-so-we-beat-on
Original: and-so-we-beat-on on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with reddish-brown hair, wearing a green shirt, reads aloud from a purple book. The book's cover has an illustration of a fish.
Woman (reading): "AND SO WE BEAT ON ENJOYING COCA-COLA, BORNE CEASELESSLY FORTH INTO REFRESHMENT"?
Caption below the panel:
Reminder:
The Great Gatsby will be public domain in 2021.
Votey:
Handwritten note:
Before you ask, I already considered "Cokes against the current" and rejected it as too pithy for an ad.
A woman with reddish-brown hair, wearing a green shirt, reads aloud from a purple book. The book's cover has an illustration of a fish.
Woman (reading): "AND SO WE BEAT ON ENJOYING COCA-COLA, BORNE CEASELESSLY FORTH INTO REFRESHMENT"?
Caption below the panel:
Reminder:
The Great Gatsby will be public domain in 2021.
Votey:
Handwritten note:
Before you ask, I already considered "Cokes against the current" and rejected it as too pithy for an ad.
Alt text
A woman with reddish-brown hair and a green shirt reads aloud from a purple book whose cover shows a fish, looking puzzled. She recites a garbled, advertising-corrupted version of the famous closing line of The Great Gatsby: "And so we beat on enjoying Coca-Cola, borne ceaselessly forth into refreshment"? A caption beneath reads: "Reminder: The Great Gatsby will be public domain in 2021" — the joke being that once the novel enters the public domain, its iconic prose could be freely rewritten into Coca-Cola ad copy. The votey (bonus panel) is a handwritten note reading: "Before you ask, I already considered 'Cokes against the current' and rejected it as too pithy for an ad," a riff on the book's real final line, "So we beat on, boats against the current."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.