belly-button

A two-part comic. Main panel: a little girl lifts her shirt to show her belly and asks her seated, light-haired father, "Daddy, why do I have a belly button?" He replies, "A long time ago, that's where Mommy was connected to you so she could pull you into her body and then slowly absorb your nutrients until you ceased to ex... Wait, is that right?" -- describing childbirth backward, as if the child is being consumed rather than born. A caption reads: "Sometimes, I forget which way the arrow of time points." Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the girl's unimpressed face as she says, "Daddy is wrong because time is illusory."