quote-2
Original: quote-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with glasses (dark hair): I don't get why you read all these weird old books.
Woman with glasses: The quotations.
Panel 2:
Woman with glasses: If you read long enough you will eventually find a statement that comes off as absolutely bizarre when stripped of its original context.
Panel 3:
Woman with glasses: You can then take that quote, put it at the top of a book on an important topic, and move on leaving the audience bewildered.
Panel 4:
Man: No quote could be worth that much effort.
Woman with glasses: Have I shown you my chapter on discrete mathematics?
Panel 5 (book page):
Chapter 2:
Logical Identities and Principles of Boolean Algebra
"Very well! then I'll have pussy."
Augustus de Morgan, Monday August 21, 1866
The study of logical identities is foundational to the understanding of methods...
Votey:
Man (off-panel, large): How long did you work to write this one joke?
Woman with glasses (small, at desk): 27 years.
Woman with glasses (dark hair): I don't get why you read all these weird old books.
Woman with glasses: The quotations.
Panel 2:
Woman with glasses: If you read long enough you will eventually find a statement that comes off as absolutely bizarre when stripped of its original context.
Panel 3:
Woman with glasses: You can then take that quote, put it at the top of a book on an important topic, and move on leaving the audience bewildered.
Panel 4:
Man: No quote could be worth that much effort.
Woman with glasses: Have I shown you my chapter on discrete mathematics?
Panel 5 (book page):
Chapter 2:
Logical Identities and Principles of Boolean Algebra
"Very well! then I'll have pussy."
Augustus de Morgan, Monday August 21, 1866
The study of logical identities is foundational to the understanding of methods...
Votey:
Man (off-panel, large): How long did you work to write this one joke?
Woman with glasses (small, at desk): 27 years.
Alt text
A six-panel comic. A woman with glasses explains to a man why she reads weird old books: "The quotations." She says that if you read long enough, you find a statement that sounds absolutely bizarre stripped of its original context, which you can then put at the top of a book on an important topic to leave the audience bewildered. The man says no quote could be worth that much effort; she asks if she's shown him her chapter on discrete mathematics. The final panel shows a textbook page: "Chapter 2: Logical Identities and Principles of Boolean Algebra," with an out-of-context epigraph quote attributed to mathematician Augustus de Morgan (Monday August 21, 1866) reading "Very well! then I'll have pussy." Votey: The man asks, "How long did you work to write this one joke?" The woman, drawn small hunched at a desk, answers: "27 years."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.