Comic #2303: 2011-09-03

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Panel 1: Text at the top: "Some day you'll experience tragedy."

Image description: A figure stands in front of a gravestone, with mountains in the background.

Panel 2: Text: "And yet nothing will change. Time will move forward, space will expand, and the fundamental constants will remain fundamentally constant."

Panel 3: Text: "What the?! The sun came up? The nerve of… I'm calling the police!"

Image description: A person, lying in bed with a shocked expression, looking toward a window showing a sunrise.

Panel 4: Text: "The laws of the universe, like a mathematician who takes everything literally, have no sense of propriety or irony."

Panel 5: Text: "I'm perfectly aware the sun is a mindless ball of plasma, but my wife is dead! Yes, a couple of squad cars should do. No, no, I… What? Oh yeah?!? Yeah, well YOUR MOM has been 'driven mad by grief.'"

Image description: A person on the phone looking frustrated and emotional.

Panel 6: Text at the bottom: "This is the essential joke of reality: it goes on."

Panel 7: Text: "Will it all continue after I'm gone?"

Image description: A person on the phone, looking concerned.

Panel 8: Text: "Sir, please stop calling the fire department."

Image description: A dispatcher on the other end of the line looking exasperated.

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