memory
Original: memory on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (narration): At first it was little things. He would forget where his keys were. Where his shoes were.
[An older man with grey hair and glasses stands looking blank.]
Panel 2 (narration): But, then he would forget where he was, and why he was there.
[The man stands behind a window, looking out, confused.]
Panel 3 (narration): He would forget important dates. Wouldn't even know what month it was.
[Close-up of the man's worried face.]
Panel 4 (narration): He would forget people he should have been familiar with. Relatives, friends, even lovers.
[The man stands in front of three indistinct blue-toned figures.]
Panel 5 (narration): It wasn't until we all got together to talk that we realized that Grampa was a mathematician.
[The man stands beside a tree. A child stands nearby.]
Grampa (speech bubble): I was moving forward, then mysteriously stopped.
Child (speech bubble): Christ, Grampa.
Grampa (speech bubble): Move the thing or the me. They are equivalent.
Votey:
[Close-up of the man's face in profile, speaking.]
Grampa (speech bubble): The me is hungry. Feed it.
[An older man with grey hair and glasses stands looking blank.]
Panel 2 (narration): But, then he would forget where he was, and why he was there.
[The man stands behind a window, looking out, confused.]
Panel 3 (narration): He would forget important dates. Wouldn't even know what month it was.
[Close-up of the man's worried face.]
Panel 4 (narration): He would forget people he should have been familiar with. Relatives, friends, even lovers.
[The man stands in front of three indistinct blue-toned figures.]
Panel 5 (narration): It wasn't until we all got together to talk that we realized that Grampa was a mathematician.
[The man stands beside a tree. A child stands nearby.]
Grampa (speech bubble): I was moving forward, then mysteriously stopped.
Child (speech bubble): Christ, Grampa.
Grampa (speech bubble): Move the thing or the me. They are equivalent.
Votey:
[Close-up of the man's face in profile, speaking.]
Grampa (speech bubble): The me is hungry. Feed it.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. An older man with grey hair and glasses is described through narration as showing worsening memory loss: forgetting where his keys and shoes are, forgetting where he is and why, forgetting what month it is, and forgetting relatives, friends, and lovers. In the final wide panel he stands by a tree near a child, and the family realizes Grampa isn't suffering dementia, he is a mathematician: he says 'I was moving forward, then mysteriously stopped,' and 'Move the thing or the me. They are equivalent' (frame-of-reference relativity). The child replies, 'Christ, Grampa.' Votey: a close-up profile of the man saying 'The me is hungry. Feed it,' continuing his habit of speaking of himself as an interchangeable object.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.