Comic #2472: 2012-02-22

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Panel 1:

• Text: "Harun Al-Rashid was not happy. A sage said he would find happiness if he wore the shirt of a happy man…"

Panel 2:

• Text: "We searched around the world… but could not find a happy man…"

Panel 3:

• Text: "Until he saw a man walking along, smiling as he went."
• The man says: "And Harun Al-Rashid said, 'Man, bring me your shirt that I may wear it.'"

Panel 4:

• The man smiles, saying: "Why, I haven't one!"

Panel 5:

• Text: "Wait, so what happened to the guy who couldn't afford a shirt?"
• A character responds: "Uhh…"

Panel 6:

• Text: "I suppose he died soon after. People didn't live very long back then."

Panel 7:

• The character asks: "And how do we know of this story if Harun Al-Rashid gave up worldly things after he met the happy man?"

Panel 8:

• The other character responds: "I suppose he went back and told a scribe or court jester about it."

Panel 9:

• A character exclaims: "Unbelievable!"

Panel 10:

• Text: "This story is just reinforcing the status quo about wealth, when every economic study shows a correlation between income and happiness all the way to upper middle class vis-a-vis your local environment."

Panel 11:

• A character states: "You are not the Overman, Harun! You are not the overwhelmed, and my mother will no longer be your mouthpiece!"

Panel 12:

• Another character asks: "How'd story time go?"
• The first character replies: "She assigned me a reading list."

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