Comic #1971: 2010-10-04

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Title: Reality has two dimensions of time: Proper Time and Remembered Time

Panel 1:

• Proper Time ➡️
• Remembered Time ✨

Panel 2:

• Proper Time is kept on watches.
  • Image: Watch with a hand pointing to "3:14 PM o'clock"
  • Text: March 23, 1993

Panel 3:

• Proper Time is finite and homogenous.
  • Text: BEGINNING ➡️ END

Panel 4:

• Remembered Time is infinite and clumpy.
  • Text: THEN ➡️
• Image with random lines and shapes
  • Text: DAY I SAVED A LIFE (continually expanding)
  • Text: TIME I HAD AN ERECTION AND FORGOT TO ZIP UP (currently missing) ➡️ NOW

Panel 5:

• Proper Time memories exist only in the past.
• Remembered Time memories can exist anywhere.
  • Dialogue:
    • Character 1: "Remember how you thanked me for those piano lessons?"
    • Character 2: "WHAT? I HATE THE PIANO!"
    • Character 1: "That’s what I say to future you!"

Panel 6:

• Text: Humans are biologically incapable of accessing proper time. This is why a point in remembered time is never the same as last time you checked it…
  • Image: Three panels labeled as Initial, Subsequent, Final—showing a character looking confused, another with a joyful expression, and another riding a bear.

Final Panel:

• Text: Why love is possible…
• Text: And why life is bearable.
• Initial: ?
• Subsequent: Character smiling
• Final: Character riding a bear.

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