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Comic #2679: 2012-09-16

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Sure! Here’s a transcription of the text in the comic:

  1. Character 1: "I don't get why people ever played video games. They've no story, no narrative."

  2. Character 2: "Have you even heard of Pac-Man?"

  3. Character 1: "Y-yeah…"

  4. Character 2: "Think about it. It's like Kafka wrote a Lovecraft story."

  5. Character 2: "Pac-Man is the story of a man who wakes up one day to find he is nothing but a mouth."

  6. Character 2: "All his dreams, hopes, desires, sensations, all channeled into a primal, consumptive urge."

  7. Character 2: "He's trapped in a maze with no exit, but his focus on consumption is so overwhelming, so sensual, that he doesn't even notice."

  8. Character 2: "But in the maze, there are ghosts, departed spirits. Do you know why they chase him?"

  9. Character 1: "N-no?"

  10. Character 2: "Ghosts can't eat; they only linger because food is the crown of the quick, and they've been dead so long, they find eating not only depressing, but repulsive."

  11. Character 2: "Then a being appears who is only mouth, only hunger. They will ignore him, mistaking him for a brand's worth of the contentness of a lover's bed."

  12. Character 2: "So they pursue the mouth, lighting each food bulb as they pass, instinctively, the primal that has even clouded the tantalizing product of whatever mad creator built this labyrinth."

  13. Character 2: "Within the mouth, they find an almost erotic hole, impotently lashing, with their wills vicariously making themselves through the tormented visceral of his mouth."

  14. Character 2: "But with each psychic excursion, the ghosts recoil, their precognitive state with renewed horror and rush faster and faster."

  15. Character 2: "Until the mouth can take no more and the dead fall upon it, charged to devour, the dead, and the mouth once again opens wide, revealing these new feasting sensations."

  16. Character 2: "And then…"

  17. Character 2: "The game begins again."

  18. Character 1: "Old games are horrifying."

  19. Character 2: "Oh, don’t get me started on centipedes."

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