illusion
Original: illusion on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Man (with a smug expression, leaning toward a woman): "Hi. We've never met, but I want to tell you that everything that happens in your life after this conversation — love, loss, hope, despair, friendship, marriage, children, EVERYTHING — is an illusion. A trick of perception, a hallucination. You, you will, wake up right here, listening to me as I finish this sentence."
Caption below the panel: "Philosophy of mind really improved my pranks."
Votey:
A close-up drawing of a face. Text along the top reads: "SEE YOU IN A SECOND!"
Man (with a smug expression, leaning toward a woman): "Hi. We've never met, but I want to tell you that everything that happens in your life after this conversation — love, loss, hope, despair, friendship, marriage, children, EVERYTHING — is an illusion. A trick of perception, a hallucination. You, you will, wake up right here, listening to me as I finish this sentence."
Caption below the panel: "Philosophy of mind really improved my pranks."
Votey:
A close-up drawing of a face. Text along the top reads: "SEE YOU IN A SECOND!"
Alt text
Single-panel comic. A smug-looking man leans toward a woman and delivers a long monologue: he tells her they've never met, but that everything that happens in her life after this conversation — love, loss, hope, despair, friendship, marriage, children, everything — is an illusion, a trick of perception, a hallucination, and that she will wake up right here, listening to him finish this sentence. The woman listens with a blank, slightly unsettled expression. A caption underneath reads: "Philosophy of mind really improved my pranks." Votey aftercomic: a sketchy close-up of a face with the words "SEE YOU IN A SECOND!" written across the top, as a parting taunt continuing the prank.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.