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Transcript
Panel 1:
A red-haired person and another person lie side by side on the grass at night, gazing up at a starry sky over a lake.
Red-haired person: IF YOU HAD TO DIE, HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO?
Panel 2:
A newspaper clipping is shown, with a headline, a small diagram of a trefoil knot, and a tiny portrait photo.
Headline: MATHEMATICIAN & LOVER DIE ATTEMPTING IMPOSSIBLE "TREFOIL 69"
Caption beside the clipping: "Nice," says coroner.
Panel 3:
The two people are lying together again under the night sky.
Red-haired person: WELL?
Other person: UH, PEACEFULLY SLEEPING OR WHATEVER.
Votey:
Text inside a hand-drawn black border:
SMBC will not be held liable for any injuries sustained applying knot theory to anyone's butt.
A red-haired person and another person lie side by side on the grass at night, gazing up at a starry sky over a lake.
Red-haired person: IF YOU HAD TO DIE, HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO?
Panel 2:
A newspaper clipping is shown, with a headline, a small diagram of a trefoil knot, and a tiny portrait photo.
Headline: MATHEMATICIAN & LOVER DIE ATTEMPTING IMPOSSIBLE "TREFOIL 69"
Caption beside the clipping: "Nice," says coroner.
Panel 3:
The two people are lying together again under the night sky.
Red-haired person: WELL?
Other person: UH, PEACEFULLY SLEEPING OR WHATEVER.
Votey:
Text inside a hand-drawn black border:
SMBC will not be held liable for any injuries sustained applying knot theory to anyone's butt.
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: two people lie on the grass at night under a starry sky beside a lake; the red-haired one asks, "If you had to die, how would you like to go?" Panel 2: a cutaway shows a newspaper clipping with a trefoil-knot diagram and the headline "Mathematician & lover die attempting impossible 'Trefoil 69'," with the caption "'Nice,' says coroner" -- visualizing the red-haired person's fantasy answer. Panel 3: back on the grass, the red-haired person says "Well?" and the other person dryly replies, "Uh, peacefully sleeping or whatever." The joke is the gulf between one partner's elaborate mathematical-sex death wish and the other's mundane answer. Votey aftercomic: white text in a hand-drawn black box reads, "SMBC will not be held liable for any injuries sustained applying knot theory to anyone's butt."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.