Comic #3390: 2014-08-29
Description
Here's the transcription of the comic's dialogue:
First Panel:
- Person 1: "Psst! Come with me! He's watching."
- Person 2: "What is this? How did you know my name?"
Second Panel:
- Person 1: "Norman, listen. This is real. You're just a character in a college student's play about the emptiness of bourgeois values."
- Person 2: "What?!"
Third Panel:
- Person 1: "Quiet! He'll hear you!"
- Person 1: "You know how you work a job you don’t love in order to feed your family."
- Person 2: "…Yeah?"
- Person 1: "You've got to stop!"
Fourth Panel:
- Person 2: "It's going to be represented as a supreme self-abnegation buried in your subconscious."
- Person 1: "What?! I'm perfectly aware that my job isn’t great! I have interesting hobbies and a lot of free time, and my family—"
Fifth Panel:
- Person 1: "Shhh!"
Sixth Panel:
- Person 1: "If you don’t quit, you’ll have a scene where the metaphorical death embodied in your being middle class results in your actual death."
- Person 2: "Come on!"
Seventh Panel:
- Person 2: "It’s bull—"
- Person 1: "Shhh! I shouldn't even be here!"
Eighth Panel:
- Person 1: "How come nobody ever writes plays about how a steady job with benefits is a pretty good deal?"
- Person 2: "Would you watch that?"
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