culture-2
Original: culture-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Teacher (a woman with dark hair): Teacher: Why do you make us learn books by dead people written in dead modes of speaking?
Student (a girl with reddish hair): That's your culture.
Panel 2:
Student: Medieval Britain is not my culture.
Teacher: For most of existence you will be dead. You have this in common with Plato and Shakespeare and Borges and Tao Yuanming.
Panel 3:
Student: I mean being dead.
Panel 4:
Student: We are all one in eventual corporifaction!
Panel 5:
Teacher: Teachers are supposed to be uplifting.
Panel 6:
Student: People keep saying that, but I've never once encountered it.
Votey:
A woman (the student, now drawn as an older woman) says, gesturing: Now pretend to enjoy James Joyce!
Teacher (a woman with dark hair): Teacher: Why do you make us learn books by dead people written in dead modes of speaking?
Student (a girl with reddish hair): That's your culture.
Panel 2:
Student: Medieval Britain is not my culture.
Teacher: For most of existence you will be dead. You have this in common with Plato and Shakespeare and Borges and Tao Yuanming.
Panel 3:
Student: I mean being dead.
Panel 4:
Student: We are all one in eventual corporifaction!
Panel 5:
Teacher: Teachers are supposed to be uplifting.
Panel 6:
Student: People keep saying that, but I've never once encountered it.
Votey:
A woman (the student, now drawn as an older woman) says, gesturing: Now pretend to enjoy James Joyce!
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A teacher (dark-haired woman) and a student (girl with reddish hair) argue about literature class. The teacher asks why students must learn books by dead people written in dead modes of speaking; the student says 'That's your culture.' The teacher counters that medieval Britain isn't the student's culture, then says that for most of existence everyone will be dead, something they share with Plato, Shakespeare, Borges, and Tao Yuanming. The student clarifies she meant 'being dead' is the shared culture, declaring 'We are all one in eventual corporifaction!' The teacher says teachers are supposed to be uplifting; the student replies 'People keep saying that, but I've never once encountered it.' Votey: a woman gestures and cheerfully says 'Now pretend to enjoy James Joyce!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.