Comic #2008: 2010-11-12

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Here’s the transcription of the text in the comic:

Panel 1:

• Character 1: "My God…"
• Character 2: "Yes. You kicked it."

Panel 2:

• Character 1: "You feel an overwhelming sense of power for your achievement."
• Character 2: "Yes…"

Panel 3:

• Character 1: "Only, having accomplished the impossible, you now feel small tasks are unworthy of you."
• Character 2: [no dialogue]

Panel 4:

• Character 1: "It’ll cloud your focus and poison your relationships. Worst of all, when you’re a lonely failure of a man, what’ll haunt you the most is that you wanted this."
• Character 2: [no dialogue]

Panel 5:

• Character 1: "You wanted your little bauble of success, which made it impossible for you to plant the seeds of future growth."
• Character 2: [no dialogue]

Panel 6:

• Caption: "60 years later…"
• Character 1: "Good grief."
• [Additional characters in the background, no dialogue]