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A single dense panel of handwritten text on a colored background. A header addresses the reader: "Literature students, the next time you have to review a book but have only skimmed it, here's a quote from Jorge Luis Borges reviewing James Joyce's Ulysses." Below is the quote: "I confess that I have not cleared a path through all 700 pages, I confess to having examined only bits and pieces, and yet I know what it is, with that bold and legitimate certainty with which we assert our knowledge of a city, without ever having been rewarded with the intimacy of all the many streets it includes." A small source citation reads: "Source: Jorge Luis Borges Selected Non-Fictions, edited by Eliot Weinberger, page 12." The joke is that a celebrated author openly admits to reviewing a book he only skimmed. Votey (aftercomic): a blank panel with a parenthetical confession in handwriting, "(Quote found while skimming the Borges book)" — revealing the cartoonist found this very quote by skimming, mirroring the bit.