lightness
Original: lightness on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with dark curly hair holds a sheet of paper and speaks to someone off-panel (her superior).
Woman: "Here is the report you requested. You will not read it, nor will your superiors, nor theirs. My labor is as a leaf wafting in the air, the lighter it is before the great winds, the more beautiful."
Caption below panel: "Why don't we treat middle management like a Zen Garden?"
Votey:
Close-up of a smiling woman's face.
Woman: "The key to abandoning all desire was the time I spent in customer service."
A woman with dark curly hair holds a sheet of paper and speaks to someone off-panel (her superior).
Woman: "Here is the report you requested. You will not read it, nor will your superiors, nor theirs. My labor is as a leaf wafting in the air, the lighter it is before the great winds, the more beautiful."
Caption below panel: "Why don't we treat middle management like a Zen Garden?"
Votey:
Close-up of a smiling woman's face.
Woman: "The key to abandoning all desire was the time I spent in customer service."
Alt text
An SMBC comic. Main panel: a woman with dark curly hair holds out a sheet of paper, addressing an unseen superior. She says, "Here is the report you requested. You will not read it, nor will your superiors, nor theirs. My labor is as a leaf wafting in the air, the lighter it is before the great winds, the more beautiful." Her tone reframes pointless corporate busywork as serene Zen detachment. The caption below reads: "Why don't we treat middle management like a Zen Garden?" Votey aftercomic: a close-up of the same smiling, peaceful woman saying, "The key to abandoning all desire was the time I spent in customer service" — joking that grinding service-industry work is a path to enlightenment.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.