Daisy
Original: Daisy on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Duck (white-feathered, drawn in a Donald Duck style): "IT DOESN'T MATTER ANYMORE, JUST TELL HIM THE TRUTH--THAT YOU NEVER LOVED HIM--AND IT'LL WIPE OUT FOREVER."
Panel 2:
Female duck (with a bow on her head): "I LOVE YOU NOW--ISN'T THAT ENOUGH? I CAN'T HELP WHAT'S PAST. I DO LOVE HIM ONCE--BUT I LOVE YOU TOO."
Panel 3:
Duck: "YOU LOVED HIM!"
Panel 4:
Female duck: "EVEN THAT'S A LIE. SHE DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE ALIVE. WHY--THERE'S THINGS BETWEEN DAISY AND ME THAT YOU'LL NEVER KNOW, THINGS THAT NEITHER OF US CAN EVER FORGET."
Small figure in a suit (in the foreground): "AW PHOOEY!"
Caption (below panels): "In 2030, Donald Duck and The Great Gatsby will both be public domain."
Votey:
Donald Duck (in chef's hat, looking distressed, with a man's head resting near him): "RASSAFRASSIN CEASELESS CURRENT OF TIME!"
Duck (white-feathered, drawn in a Donald Duck style): "IT DOESN'T MATTER ANYMORE, JUST TELL HIM THE TRUTH--THAT YOU NEVER LOVED HIM--AND IT'LL WIPE OUT FOREVER."
Panel 2:
Female duck (with a bow on her head): "I LOVE YOU NOW--ISN'T THAT ENOUGH? I CAN'T HELP WHAT'S PAST. I DO LOVE HIM ONCE--BUT I LOVE YOU TOO."
Panel 3:
Duck: "YOU LOVED HIM!"
Panel 4:
Female duck: "EVEN THAT'S A LIE. SHE DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE ALIVE. WHY--THERE'S THINGS BETWEEN DAISY AND ME THAT YOU'LL NEVER KNOW, THINGS THAT NEITHER OF US CAN EVER FORGET."
Small figure in a suit (in the foreground): "AW PHOOEY!"
Caption (below panels): "In 2030, Donald Duck and The Great Gatsby will both be public domain."
Votey:
Donald Duck (in chef's hat, looking distressed, with a man's head resting near him): "RASSAFRASSIN CEASELESS CURRENT OF TIME!"
Alt text
A four-panel comic drawn in the style of Donald Duck cartoons, mashing up Disney ducks with dialogue from The Great Gatsby. Two white ducks argue: one urges the other to tell 'him' the truth that 'you never loved him' to 'wipe out forever.' A female duck with a bow replies, 'I love you now--isn't that enough? I can't help what's past. I do love him once--but I love you too.' The first duck exclaims, 'You loved him!' She backpedals, 'Even that's a lie. She didn't know you were alive. Why--there's things between Daisy and me that you'll never know, things that neither of us can ever forget,' while a small suited figure in the foreground mutters 'Aw phooey!' A caption reads: 'In 2030, Donald Duck and The Great Gatsby will both be public domain.' Votey: Donald Duck in a chef's hat looks anguished, a man's head slumped beside him, shouting 'Rassafrassin ceaseless current of time!'--a duck-grumble version of Gatsby's famous closing line about being borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.